Challenges
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As Christmas is just around the corner and time is precious (see what I did there with last week’s prompt. I know, you’re all groaning), you have two weeks to work on the next writing prompt, which is PLANS As we’re coming to the end of one year and are about to embark on a…
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Isn’t Christmas hurtling closer and closer? I’m sure you’re all very busy like me, so for this limerick challenge, you have two weeks instead of the usual one. I’ll publish all your wonderful limericks on Monday 30th December. Your new word is: SLEIGH Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word HOUSE in…
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Here’s this week’s story challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 40 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 10 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your brilliant stories: Darlene: The Martian longed for spaghetti so…
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This week’s writing prompt is TIME What does time mean to you? It can be easy to feel that you don’t have any at this time of year, with so much to do. Does time mean clocks and watches? Do you think of it in terms of time-travel? Wouldn’t it be good to be able…
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I hope you had a lovely weekend. It’s now time for a new limerick challenge. Your word this week is: HOUSE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word WORST in it somewhere. You came up with some very amusing limericks: John W. Howell: There once was a man from Pine Hurst, Who’s…
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Here’s this week’s story challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 10 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your hilarious stories: Richmond Road: Shake a leg Don’t break…
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This week’s writing prompt is GIFTS My prompt last week was Christmas, so it would be easy to think I mean Christmas gifts. If that’s where the prompt takes you, that’s fine, but there are lots of other interpretations of ‘gifts’. For example, you might see good health as being a gift. My cat brings…
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Happy Monday! Time for a new limerick challenge. Your word this week is: WORST Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word BEARD in it somewhere. You came up with some very funny limericks: Trentpmcd: Tom had a beard that wouldn’t stop Like the guys from ZZ Top From his face To his…
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Here’s this week’s story challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 28 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 super stories: Linking People 2003: On his worn-out couch,…
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This week’s writing prompt is CHRISTMAS Isn’t it a little early to have a prompt on Christmas, you may ask. But I’ve seen lots of Christmas trees up already, there are gifts in the shops and advent calendars ready to go up on Sunday, so perhaps it’s not too early. What do you think? What…
Esther Chilton 