Challenges
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How’s your week so far? Cold? It has been where I live, with a chilly wind, but at least the snow has now gone. Here is a new challenge to warm you up: Can you tell a story in 30 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: SCORCHING IGLOO HERBAL CAT…
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I can’t believe the first week of January has already whizzed by. We’ve had sunshine, frost, snow, rain, wind – all sorts of weather. But we increasingly seem to be seeing more storms. So your prompt this week is fittingly STORM Of course a storm doesn’t just have to relate to the weather. Open up…
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How was your weekend? Cold, if you live here in the UK! Here’s an apt new limerick challenge for the start to this week: SNOW Least week’s prompt was CHANGE. You came up with some great limericks: Trent: There once was a man from Boston With a house big enough to get lost in The…
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As it was Christmas, I gave you two weeks for the last challenge. We’re back to normal this week. So… Can you tell a story in 18 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: RESOLUTIONS CUSTARD HAIRDRYER The previous prompt was to tell a story in 25 words using the following…
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I hope you’re all having a good 2025 so far (well, it has only been a few hours!). Your writing prompt this week is FAVOURITE 2024 MOMENTS As we welcome another new year in, we often look back over the past 12 months. There will have been good times and bad times, but let’s focus…
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I hope you all had a great Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wished for! The New Year is almost here and with a new year brings: CHANGE So that’s your new limerick challenge this week. You had longer to craft your limericks this time with the Christmas break, so here are you limericks…
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As it’s Christmas (almost), you have two weeks in which to dazzle us with your story. Here is your Christmas challenge: Can you tell a story in 25 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: SCROOGE GNOME CHIMNEY GLOWING Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 40 words using…
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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: BORED PONY COCONUT RESCUE PIANO Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 10 words using the following words in it somewhere: MARTIAN SPAGHETTI Here are your brilliant stories:…
