Esther Chilton

  • Guest Writer Spot

    When I set my recent New Year challenge, a writer called Joy Lennick contacted me and sent me some of her wonderful poems. They weren’t on the subject of the challenge, but she wondered if I’d like to feature them on my blog. Of course I would! Enjoy 🙂 BREAKING THE SAMENESS She knew she…

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  • I Challenge You To…

    I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Did any of you make a New Year’s Resolution? I’d love to know if you did and what it is if so. Or if you’d prefer, make it up, in the form of a limerick, poem, short story or article. So my challenge for…

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  • Bite Size Writing Tips

    Need inspiration for how to open a short story? Dialogue is a great tool:  “Leave me alone! I hate you and I’ll never forgive you,” she spat, her lips quivering.   “I’m sorry. I didn’t know. It wasn’t my fault,” the man said, tears in his eyes. See how, as a reader, you’re privy to…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    Well, that’s helpful…

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  • I Challenge You To…

    Well, Christmas is over (I hope you all had a good one) and so the countdown to the New Year is on. So my challenge for this week is: New Year Resolutions Limericks, poems, short stories… I’d like to see anything and everything! ***

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  • Funny Of The Week

    Well, that clears that up then…

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  • It’s Christmas!

    Wishing you all a very…

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  • A Lighter Look At Life

    Watching Bem peered through the window, his eyes wide at the goings on inside. ‘Can you believe what they’re doing?’ Arun joined him, her cold and clammy skin touching his. She smiled at him. ‘Nothing could surprise me,’ she said, turning to look inside at the huge kitchen table, brimming with tasty treats. ‘No,’ she…

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  • I Challenge You To…

    My ‘Deer’ challenge set a couple of weeks ago produced some super stories, which I’ve already featured. Here’s another from Geoff Le Pard. Please click on the link to be thoroughly entertained: Nigel Deare and The Curse Of the Lillies #flashfiction And here are a few of your pieces from my staircase challenge: Kristian: https://talesfromthemindofkristian.wordpress.com/2018/12/06/a-challenge-falling-for-blue-eyes/ Jim…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    There’s clearly a problem with the water, but look what you get for free at this hotel!!

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