Esther Chilton
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This week’s writing prompt is: BEST DAY What’s been the best day in your life? The day you got married? Gave birth to your first child? Perhaps it was gaining a degree, going on a special holiday, moving into your dream home, or the day you got the all-clear from cancer. You may have had…
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I’ve never seen a flamingo quite like that…
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Let’s get your Monday going with a new limerick challenge. Your word this week is: OLDER Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TASTE in it somewhere. You came up with some amusing limericks: Trent’s World: There once was an ornery lad Who had no taste but bad So over the…
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This week’s guest writer is the delightful Val Fish, whose blog is sexagenarianscribbler. She produces some super responses to my challenges and has a love of limericks. Here are a few limericks from her latest book: With his sermon about to begin The priest had to suppress a huge grin Cos just minutes ago Out…
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It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 23 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 47 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your super stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: ‘We need…
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This week’s writing prompt is: TIME What does TIME mean to you? Good times, spent with family and friends? Always being pushed for time? Happy memories of times in the past? Or perhaps you think of the future and the times that will bring. It might be a timepiece itself that holds special significance. You…
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This is one smart kid!
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I’m sorry I’ve not responded to everyone’s brilliant posts and responses to my challenges – the surgery is taking longer to recover from than I’d thought. So please bear with me. Your new weekly limerick challenge is TASTE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SAVE in it somewhere. You came up…
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I hope you’ve all had a good week. It’s now time to introduce this week’s guest writer. It’s the very talented Nancy Blodgett Klein. This is the first time she’s been a guest on my blog and I’m sure you’ll join me in giving her a warm welcome. Nancy has lots of writing experience and…
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It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 47 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 39 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your hilarious stories (apologies if yours doesn’t…
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