Challenges

  • Happy Monday. I can’t believe we’re edging towards the middle of May already. Anyway, have a great week. Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: DAD Last week’s prompt was SNITCH. You came up with some super limericks: Nicola Daly: ‘There’s a girl in my class who’s a snitch,’ Said Wenda…

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  • It’s Thursday and that means story time. How many words am I giving you this week? Here goes… Can you tell a story in 31 words using the following words in it somewhere: CANOE TURKEY MIME NAILS Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere:…

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  • Happy new week and for those of you in the UK, happy bank holiday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: SNITCH Last week’s prompt was BEEP. You came up with some fabulous limericks: Tony: A flash in the night, a beating heart of steel, a tiny call between two worlds,…

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  • I hope you’ve had a good week so far. One more day until the weekend. Here’s a new story challenge for you. Can you tell a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere: GOBBLEDEGOOK CHAIRMAN SALE Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 38 words using the following words…

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  • Writing Prompts

    If you could go to any fictional world, where would that be? I love the Harry Potter books and so I’d love to go to Hogwarts. Enid Blyton was a firm favourite and so I could see myself climbing up the Faraway Tree. Or perhaps fighting my way through a wardrobe of coats into Narnia.…

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  • Happy new week. Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: BEEP Last week’s prompt was KNAVE. You came up with some fabulous limericks: Trent’s World: If wickedness is what you crave You’d love Bob the Knave! He can sin With a grin And will never, ever behave! Keith Edgar Channing: Know…

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  • It’s been a short week with the bank holiday on Monday, but it’s still zoomed by. I hope you’ve had a good week. Here’s your new story challenge. Can you tell a story in 38 words using the following words in it somewhere: OPERATION ATTRACT VANILLA PRAM QUACK Last week’s challenge was to write a…

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  • Writing Prompts

    My favourite toy when I was a little girl was the Tree Tots Tree house. It was a dolls’ house in the shape of a tree. If you pushed a button on top of the tree, it sprang open to reveal a house! I absolutely loved it. So you prompt this week is TOYS I…

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  • Happy Easter Monday! I hope you’ve had a lovely Easter so far. Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: KNAVE Last week’s prompt was LEAVE. You came up with some fabulous limericks: Trent’s World: I don’t know what to do She said we’d leave at two It’s now three And here…

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  • It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s your new challenge. Can you tell a story in 20 words using the following words in it somewhere: APOCALYPSE PINEAPPLE EXUBERANT Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere: BEDRAGGLED MASK VODKA Here are your hilarious stories: Ann Edall-Robson:…

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