• Guest Writer Spot

    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. This week’s guest is a writer whose work I always

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  • We’re over halfway through the week and counting down until the weekend. Here’s your new story challenge. Can you tell a story in 50 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 40 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your fabulous stories:

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  • A couple of weeks ago, Esther very kindly put out a request for feedback on the blurb for my new novel, Borderline. Even more kindly, so many of you took the time out to read the options and provide feedback. Be assured that every comment, no matter how long or short, was considered and thrown

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  • Writing Prompts

    This week’s word prompt is TREASURE What comes into your mind when you think of that word? Pirates? Gold coins and goblets? Perhaps it’s a loved one you treasure, or a moment in time. It could even be time itself that you treasure. Fact or fiction, prose or poetry, I would love to read your

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  • At least they’re being honest…

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  • I hope you all had a great weekend. Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you at the start of the week. Your word this week is: RENT Last week’s prompt was DAD. You came up with some brilliant limericks: Frank Hubeny: There once was a shiny, bright lad and a damsel his mom said was bad

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  • My new series features some of my favourite holiday destinations. Last week we visited Dubai and before that Bournemouth in England. This week, we’re back to the UK for a visit to Harrogate: Mum, Dad and I first visited the beautiful spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire some years ago. Move forward a decade or two

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  • Do any of you like writing flash fiction? Maybe you’re not sure what it is. Or, if you do know, you’d like to explore it some more. I’ve written a new course for The Writers Bureau on this form of writing. In this three-module, online course you cover what flash fiction is, how to write

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    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. This week, I would like to welcome V. M. Sang

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  • It’s that time of the week – story time. So here we go… Can you tell a story in 40 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 31 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your laugh out loud stories: Graeme Sandford:

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