• Writing Prompts

    One of my close friend’s daughter has just come back from travelling around Australia. I followed her on Instagram and my favourite videos were of the stunning waterfalls. The whoosh of the water and its sheer power is immense. So your prompt this week is WATER What does the word mean to you? A lack

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  • There’s always more than one way to interpret a question, as demonstrated here:

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  • Happy Monday. I can’t believe we’re edging towards the middle of May already. Anyway, have a great week. Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: DAD Last week’s prompt was SNITCH. You came up with some super limericks: Nicola Daly: ‘There’s a girl in my class who’s a snitch,’ Said Wenda

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  • My new series features some of my favourite holiday destinations. Last week we visited Bournemouth in England. This week, we’re going overseas to Dubai: For two years a friend of mine had been urging me to visit her in Dubai, where she was working as a teacher. But I have to admit I really wasn’t

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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. Please welcome Andrew McDowell to my Guest Writer Spot this

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  • It’s Thursday and that means story time. How many words am I giving you this week? Here goes… Can you tell a story in 31 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your amusing

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  • Your Help Needed!

    My partner, Graeme Cumming, is also a writer and his first crime novel is coming out soon. He’s currently working on a blurb. He’s come up with five, but isn’t sure which one he likes. So he’s looking for some help in choosing one. Which one do you like best? Blurb 1 Stopping a sex

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  • Writing Prompts

    Whenever I’m feeling stressed or anxious, I think of my special place – a place where I was happy and relaxed and at peace with the world. And where is that place? It’s under a tree – a tree I first sat under when I was five years old. That’s nearly fifty years ago now,

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  • An inventive one to make you chuckle:

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  • Happy new week and for those of you in the UK, happy bank holiday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is: SNITCH Last week’s prompt was BEEP. You came up with some fabulous limericks: Tony: A flash in the night, a beating heart of steel, a tiny call between two worlds,

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