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  • Welcome to the seventh instalment in my weekly writing series. Each week, I give you an idea – whether it’s a magazine to write for, a theme for a short story, the opening line of a poem…Here are the first , second , third , fourth , fifth and sixth in the series. This week,

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  • Just A Bit Of Fun

    It’s always good to write something for fun. It often serves as just the writing break you need, getting the mind going and focused again. I saw a newspaper article about a school reunion and this rhyme came to mind:   Finding God   My old school recently held a special bash, Class of ’83

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  • I Challenge You To…

    You know how you’re sitting there, staring out the window, when an idea starts to form in your mind? Well, the idea for a new weekly series started to form in mine – an ‘I Challenge You To…’ series. So here’s the first one: I Challenge You To… Write 5 mini-stories in 20, 30, 40,

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  • Welcome to the sixth instalment in my latest writing series. Each week, I give you an idea – whether it’s a magazine to write for, a theme for a short story, the opening line of a poem…Here are the first , second , third , fourth and fifth in the series. This week, it’s  the

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  • Welcome to the fifth instalment in my latest writing series. Each week, I give you an idea – whether it’s a magazine to write for, a theme for a short story, the opening line of a poem…Here are the first , second , third and fourth in the series. This week, it’s the fifth part

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  • As many of you know, I am a bit of a cat lover and I do some work for Cats Protection, in various ways. A local author,  Jenny Henwood, has just had her first book published. Atticus’s Secret is the first in The Rainbow Riding School children’s book series for children aged 4 years and

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  • Happy New Year! I know lots of you have been back blogging for a while, but I took a little bit of a break over the festive period. I hope you all had a wonderful time with friends and family and that your 2018 is going great so far. So, it’s back to my new

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  • This is the third installment in my new weekly series. Each week, I’ll be bringing you an idea – whether it’s a magazine to write for, a theme for a short story, the opening line of a poem…Here are the first and second in the series. This week, it’s the letter C‘s turn. And C

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  • Last week saw the first in my new weekly series. Each week, I’ll be bringing you an idea – whether it’s a magazine to write for, a theme for a short story, the opening line of a poem…If you missed the first in the series, you can view it here. This week, it’s the letter

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  • Here’s part one of my new writing series. Each week, I’ll be bringing you an idea – whether it’s a magazine to write for, a theme for a short story, the opening line of a poem… This week, my idea for you is in the form of the letter A, and in this case A

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