Challenges
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This week’s writing prompt is: FILMS What’s your favourite film? Perhaps it’s something modern, or is it an iconic movie that’s stood the test of time? My earliest memory of going to see a film is when my mother took me to see Bambi. She soon wished she hadn’t as I cried through most of…
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Happy new week. Here is a new limerick challenge. Your word this week is: STYLE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word OLDER in it somewhere. You came up with some entertaining limericks: Keith Channing: One day I may be a stakeholder. Landowner, lessee or smallholder. Don’t mind that I’m poor, Even…
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It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 50 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 23 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your entertaining stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: The hero…
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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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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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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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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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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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This week’s writing prompt is: SEASONS Which is your favourite season? Mine is autumn. I love the glorious golds, oranges and reds as the leaves turn. There’s also a crisp freshness to the air and the crackle of the log burner once inside. The differing seasons can make a great theme for a poem, or…
Esther Chilton 