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It’s Thursday and time for my new weekly writing challenge. Here are your options: Option one: Write a limerick with the word bubble in it somewhere Option two: Write a poem on the theme of nature Option three: Write a ten-word story using all of the following words: Fandango, insipid, trifle and gurning Last week
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It’s in the title! Whilst purusing the shelves in a book shop recently, I found myself taking an interest in the titles and it wasn’t long before my mind started thinking up stories just from those titles. Here are some which might set you thinking: Time to Party Watching You The Legacy The Key Secrets
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Out with the old? No, not just yet! Last week, I suggested writing something new for 2016. This week, why not take a trip back in time and look through some of your previous work? Many a time I’ve done this and reworked a story, which I’d given up on, only for it to be
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Yes, it’s that time of the week again – time to get your creative brain working for my weekly challenge. Enjoy! Option one: Choose as many words as you can from the following list and write a twenty-word story: Bibliopole Scarlet Breatharian Nancy Blimey Constellate Uncouth Moped Bauble Angel Degust Needy Tinsel Chocolate Elves Option
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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!
Esther Chilton 