Esther Chilton
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This week, G, H, and I receive the short story treatment: G is for grotto: For many of us, the idea of a grotto conjures up a rosy cheeked Father Christmas sitting in his grotto, waiting to greet children and agree to their dreams of the latest toy or gadget. Now is the perfect time…
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Last week, I was guest blogger on ‘The Writers Bureau’ weekly blog. My tip advised writers not to throw away old work. You might be able to tweak an article or story and send it to a different market. Even if you look at a piece of work and think Yes, I can see why…
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It seems as if flash fiction is a firm favourite amongst you and I received some hugely entertaining stories for my weekly challenge last week. See them below. My new weekly challenge builds on the opening line challenge from a fortnight ago. This time I’m giving you the last line of a story: Perhaps tomorrow…
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This week I’ve found a market, which is inviting true-life spooky stories. ‘Take A Break’s Fate and Fortune’ magazine is full of unusual and unexplained happenings. If you’ve seen a ghostly apparition, had a reading from a medium which has come true, been given a message from a loved one who has passed on, or…
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I wonder it’ll do if you disturb it!
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Apologies for interrupting my weekly series to bring you news of the launch of my book. Normal business is now resumed! But I would like to thank you all for the support you’ve given me with the book 🙂 This week, I’m covering the D, E and F of short story ideas. I hope they…
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Take a deep breath and just do it! In my role as a writing tutor and through meeting lots of writers through various media, I’ve found that many don’t send their work out. The reason? For some, they simply enjoy writing and want to write for themselves which is fine. For others they’re too scared,…
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I had some very interesting, intriguing and exciting interpretations of my opening line challenge: ‘She wished she hadn’t opened the letter’. Read them below and enjoy. Yesterday my market of the week was for a daily flash fiction competition, which invites stories of between 20-100 words. So to get you in the mood to enter,…
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This week’s market will be added to my ‘More Markets For Freelancers Page‘. I know a lot of you enjoy flash fiction as evidenced by the delightful stories in the recent challenges I’ve run so I’ve found a market which invites writers to send in stories of between 20-100 words: ‘Just 100 Words’ is a…
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I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll give the bottom tourist attraction a miss:
Esther Chilton 