• Happy New Year to you all. Here’s the first story challenge of the year: Can you tell a story in 40 words using the following words in it somewhere: The previous challenge was to write a story in 100 words using the following ten words in it somewhere: Here are your fun stories: HopeLess: On

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  • Happy New Year!

    Here’s to a great 2026!

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  • Writing Prompts

    Your writing prompt this week is NEW BEGINNINGS I thought this would be an appropriate prompt with it being New Year’s Day tomorrow. But you don’t have to write about New Year. Your new beginnings can relate to anything, real or fictional. Fact or fiction, prose or poetry, I would love to read your thoughts

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  • Funny Of The Week

    It was only a matter of time before they caught up with Lex Luthor (aka Dad)…

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  • I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with family and friends. Here’s your new limerick challenge as we build up to welcoming in a new year: DOOR Last week’s prompt was HOLLY. You came up with some more fabulous Christmas limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: Holly and ivy aplenty Orange with cloves is quite scenty Light

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  • Writing Prompts

    Your new writing prompt on this lovely Christmas Eve is FAMILY Many of us are lucky to be surrounded by family at Christmas. But what about those members sadly missing/no longer with us? Maybe family means more to you than blood relatives. What about friends? Pets? What does the prompt word mean to you? Fact

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  • Funny Of The Week

    If you’re going to put a stocking out for Santa to fill, you’ve got to include the cats and gerbils as well… Photo credit: EC

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  • Happy Monday! We’re really counting down the days now. I hope it’s all coming together and you’re almost ready for the big day. Here’s your new limerick challenge: HOLLY Last week’s prompt was SLEIGH. You came up with great Christmas limericks: HopeLess: There once was a sleigh in the snow That raced through the night with

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  • I’d heard a lot about Jan Sikes‘s books and thoroughly enjoyed visiting all the stops on her joint blog tour (with Linda Broday). So I downloaded A Bold Bargain. This isn’t the first in the series, but I have to say, it didn’t matter. It’s made me want to read the others, but you don’t

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