Esther Chilton

  • So I started my search for the most hideous Christmas jumper ever last week and I have to admit, I wondered if I’d found it last week. What do you think? I mean, the hat just doesn’t go, does it?!  

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  • As Christmas draws ever nearer, it seems that houses outside and in are being thrust into the festivities. Our house is no exception but unlike this person, I draw the line at the bathroom:      

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Windy walks and bubble baths I’m sure you’ll know what I mean when I say that some days your writing just seems to flow effortlessly and before you know it you’ve reached that goal of 1000 words. On other days, holding a tarantula in your hand for ten minutes (or a snake, rat, cockroach etc…

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  • With Christmas just around the corner and heads full of cards, wrapping paper, lists, present buying, Christmas dos and much much more, ideas for stories, articles and poems with a Christmas theme easily come to mind. If they do, great, jot them down but save them for late summer/early autumn next year. It’s no good…

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  • My Writing Week

    I’ve a few interesting projects on the go at the moment and at the start of the week they weren’t going well, but fingers crossed, things seem to be coming together. My market of the week for you is ‘Writers’ Forum’: You can find a copy of this monthly publication in selected newsagents, but if…

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  • It’s that time of year when every bloke hopes his mother doesn’t knit/buy him the most hideous Christmas jumper in the world – yet again! As we count down the weeks to Christmas, I thought I’d try and find the most hideous Christmas jumper ever. I think I’m off to a good start:  

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  • Well, that’s it, we’re into December and just when you thought advertisers and retailers couldn’t shove Christmas down your throat anymore, along come more ads featuring cringe-worthy Christmas compilations, tacky commercials showing off sickly supermarket spreads and plenty more to remind you that Aunt Edith really would love a new pair of mauve moccassin slippers…

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Homophone Headache! Yesterday in my writing exercise for you, I asked you to spot ten deliberate mistakes in a page of text. One of the mistakes was a homophone (aloud/allowed) where the words sound the same but have a different meaning. It’s so easy to type the wrong word but always look at the context…

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  • Monstrous Mistakes!

    In my blog, I’ve mentioned the importance of checking your work through for mistakes. It’s so easy to miss a full stop off the end of a sentence, misspell a word, place speech marks in the wrong place, leave a word out or add one in where there shouldn’t be one and so on. Some…

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  • My Writing Week

    My ‘Writers Bureau’ in-box is full this week, with many students looking to send in assignments before the Christmas break. After all, it’s December Sunday so not long to go! I’m also doing the same as my students and submitting articles and short stories before the end of year deadlines so all in all, a…

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