• 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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  • I’m now moving on from my music series and I’m going to revisit some of my favourite holiday destinations. The first in the series is somewhere I fell in love with at the age of four – Bournemouth: Bournemouth in Dorset has always been my favourite seaside town. When I was growing up, Mum and

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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 the very talented John W. Howell as my

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  • I hope you’ve had a good week so far. One more day until the weekend. Here’s a new story challenge for you. Can you tell a story in 18 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 38 words using the following words in it somewhere:

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  • Writing Prompts

    If you could go to any fictional world, where would that be? I love the Harry Potter books and so I’d love to go to Hogwarts. Enid Blyton was a firm favourite and so I could see myself climbing up the Faraway Tree. Or perhaps fighting my way through a wardrobe of coats into Narnia.

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