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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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It’s Friday and time for my Guest Writer. This week, it’s Rebecca Tran‘s Turn. Welcome Rebecca! Here is is taster of her novel, The Sins: Prologue Anya was waiting for me when I entered the room, lounging on a velvet sofa with silk pillows, looking rather pale. Her deep brown curls were only half pinned…
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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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The ChipLitFest Short Story Competition has two categories – one for stories of up to 2500 words and one for stories up to 5000 words. Here are some more details for you: Prizes: 1st: £500 2nd: £100 3rd: £50 The three winning stories will also be published on the ChipLitFest website, together with author photos…
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I love the blackboards you often see outside a pub or restaurant. They usually have something funny on them. Here’s the first one in my new series and the second. Now for the third…
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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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It is with great pleasure that I welcome the wonderful Jane Risdon to my Guest Writer Spot, with this super article about her incredible writing journey. Decades of Patience. This past week has seen the culmination of more than 5 years working on a novel with my co-author Christina Jones. It seems such a long…
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When you’re working hard on your novel, or writing an article, or short story, do you ever find your mind going off at a tangent, and all sorts of quirky ideas start rushing in? I was writing a short story, which was actually quite serious in nature when, bizarrely, the following children’s tale came into…
Esther Chilton 