• 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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  • 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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