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Many of you follow Nicole Sara’s beautiful blog Starry Steps and enjoy her poems. She really has a gift for creating stunning lines. I recently finished her collection of poems – Rhyming Dreams. Here’s the blurb: Rhyming Dreams is an enchanting and engaging collection of poems about the heart’s winding journey through deep wistful longing…
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If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive. My guest this week is here for the first time.…
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Here’s your new Thursday story challenge: Can you tell a story in 61 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 77 words using the following seven words in it somewhere: Here are your hilarious stories: Nicola Daly: So, this year I’m finding costumes for Madame…
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Your writing prompt this week is FISH You may think of physical fish, swimming in the sea, or being part of a delicious meal. But it’s another word with multiple meanings. We sometimes use it to refer to a person who is a little strange, seeing them as ‘an odd fish’. It can be used…
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I’ve seen this sign a few times online, but when I saw it in person it still made me smile.
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Happy Monday to you all. Here’s a new limerick challenge. Your word is SNACKS Last week’s prompt was LITTER. You came up with some thoughtful limericks: Nicola Daly: My old gran loved to bedazzle with glitter She was also a bit of a knitter She made jumpers galore Until we shouted ‘No more! We’d prefer you…
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I’ve snuck an extra guest writer in this week. Talented poet Nicole Sara will be known to many of you from her blog Starry Steps. Her brand new poetry collection is coming out tomorrow! Here’s the blurb: The Blues and the Beautiful is a luminous collection of poems celebrating life and love in all its…
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Here’s your new Thursday story challenge: Can you tell a story in 77 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 46 words using the following four words in it somewhere: Here are your excellent stories: Nicola Daly: ‘Wipe the drool from your face, Mother.’ ‘It’s…
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Your writing prompt this week is GLASS This week’s word first came to mind when I picked up my glass of water and beautiful, iridescent colours twinkled through it. You might think of a mirror, a vase or glasses that you wear instead. But other meanings or associations may come to mind. What does the…
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