Esther Chilton
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This week’s market is Alfie Dog Fiction International Short Story Competition. 1st Prize: £200 and publication of a short story collection of 35,000 – 40,000 words 2nd Prize: Critique of stories to a total maximum word count of 10,000 words Closing date: 30th September 2015 To enter, send one story of between 1000 and 2000…
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Run out of mints? Not quite sure this is the obvious substitute…perhaps, it’s just me!
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Summertime conjures up images of stunning sunsets, beautiful beaches with sand oozing between toes, the lullaby of waves lapping into shore…but what about an underwater scene? Here’s a visual image to inspire your writing:
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The Perfect Paragraph When an idea comes to mind and you’re eager to get everything down on paper, it’s easy to forget about paragraphs and making sure your story has a good mixture of short and longer paragraphs. In fact, sometimes paragraphs can be forgotten about altogether. Read the following passage from a short story:…
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This week’s writing challenge is for a story in up to fifteen words. I’m not giving you any words this time, but you story must contain words which start with the same letter e.g.: Bertie Bathwick bought bright blue boots but Bertie’s brother Bernard bashed both. This isn’t a particularly good example, but it gives…
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‘Wanderlust‘ is my market for you this week. They describe themselves as being a travel magazine ‘for people with a passion for travel’. Destinations the world over are covered. Thay particularly like ‘off-the-beaten-track destinations, secret corners of the world and unusual angles on well-known places are always of particular interest’. If you like travel writing…
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I love this one! Though, I think 50% of you will disagree 😉
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My Monday motivational blog is to remind you that my Flash Fiction Competition closes tomorrow! So there’s still time to enter or for those of you who already have, to send another story. Here’s a quick reminder of the details: Prizes: 1st £50, 2nd £25, 3rd £10 Entry fee: £2 per story Word Limit: Stories…
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Be consistent We’ve all done it – been so immersed in our writing that we’ve changed a character’s name half way through a story. So a story might start off being about Jake and his annoying mother, only for him to morph into a character called Johnny towards the end of the story. It needn’t…
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My challenge for your this week is to write a poem or story based on the following visual prompt of a haunted lighthouse: Last week’s challenge was a poem about the sea. There were some fantastic responses: Judith Westerfield sent the following link to a poem that’s a little different but highly entertaining: http://judithwesterfield.com/2015/05/21/up-a-tree-x-8/ Stephen…
Esther Chilton 