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This is the penultimate post in this current series. Okay, we’ve had California Dreamin’ , Moonlight Shadow, The Smurf Song, The Clapping Song, Chiquitita, Lady in Red, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Rock Me Amadeus, Ride on Time and now comes Rio. I couldn’t believe it – more than thirty-five years after I first fell in love with…
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It’s a while since I’ve run my Guest Writer Spot, so I thought it about time I kick-started it again. I’d love to feature your writing in this slot. Anything and everything goes, from extracts from your books, to short stories, to poems, to non-fiction. If you’d like to be included in my guest writer…
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It’s nearly the end of the week. How’s yours been so far? Good, I hope. Here’s a new story challenge. Can you tell a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 41 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are…
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Last week, your writing prompt was LIGHT. So I thought it fitting to go for the opposite this week: DARK. The word has so many meanings – a dark sky or night, for instance. Or what about darkness in someone’s soul? It also symbolises death, despair and deceit. We can also think about it in…
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Well, I have to agree…
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Happy new week! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you – your new word is: GRIM Last week’s prompt was CHILL. You came up with some amusing limericks: Kim Smyth: There once was a dude who could chill So cool, he did not even need a pill Never spoke a bad word Good vibes only heard…
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Just a couple more to go now. So far, we’ve had California Dreamin’ , Moonlight Shadow, The Smurf Song, The Clapping Song, Chiquitita, Lady in Red, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Rock Me Amadeus. This week, we turn to Ride on Time. I’m still on really good terms with my ex-mother-in-law. She recently started talking about how I…
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I went to a talk by crime writer Elly Griffiths in 2024. I’d read a few of her books in the Dr Ruth Galloway series and enjoyed them. During the talk Elly gave us a few snippets about the new book she was writing which is about time travel. My ears pricked up. A time…
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It’s Thursday, so it’s story time. Can you tell a story in 41 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 30 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your laugh out loud stories: Niki Daly: That devious chicken – he’s only bricked…
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Now the clocks have changed, it’s getting lighter in the evenings. So that got me thinking about the word ‘light’. It can mean so many different things. A lightness in feeling, lightweight, a light bulb moment, daylight, sunlight, twilight, artificial light, on and on it goes. What does it mean to you? Or perhaps it’s…
Esther Chilton 