• Wishing you all a happy new week. Here’s your weekly limerick challenge. Your new word is: DINNER Last week’s prompt was LAZY. You came up with some funny limericks: Kim Smyth: The woman was feeling quite lazy Cause the sky was cloudy and hazy She took it too easy Feeling light and breezy Make sure everyone…

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  • Music Memories

    We’re a few weeks into this series now and we’ve covered California Dreamin’ , Moonlight Shadow, The Smurf Song, The Clapping Song, Chiquitita and Lady in Red. It’s now time for Girls Just Want to Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper. What teenager who grew up in the 1980s doesn’t remember Girls Just Want To have Fun? As an eleven-year-old,…

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  • I’ve read lots of books by this author under the name of Glynis Peters. She writes beautifully-told wartime sagas. When I heard she’d written something a little different, I was curious to know more. The Weybourne Witches has been published under the name of Amber Raven (the perfect name for a story about witches). Here’s…

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  • It’s story time. How long does your story need to be? Well, this week I’m looking for two stories. You can do either challenge or both! Challenge one: Can you tell a story in 7 words? You must use the following word somewhere in the story: Challenge two: Can you tell a story in 50…

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  • Writing Prompts

    Before the British Reader’s Digest closed, I used to write funny true-life anecdotes for them. There were so many of them! Here’s one: I was having a cup of tea at a friend’s house one morning when my phone went. It was my five-year-old daughter’s school. She wasn’t feeling very well. The roads were busy,…

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  • I love the chalkboards you see outside bars and shops. So I thought it would be fun to feature a few. Here’s the first. It’s an easy mistake to make…

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  • Happy Monday, all. Here’s your weekly limerick challenge. Your new word is: LAZY Last week’s prompt was KILT. You came up with some funny limericks: Kim Smyth: This hot guy once wore a kilt At a concert, high as a stilt His show was a turd Cause he forgot all the words Not very smart was…

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  • Music Memories

    Okay, so we’ve had California Dreamin’ , Moonlight Shadow, The Smurf Song, The Clapping Song and Chiquitita. For this week’s trip down music memory lane, it’s Chris De Burgh with Lady in Red: When I was fourteen, we used to visit my nan most Sundays. She lived a good hour or so away so Mum, Dad and I went to…

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  • A few weeks ago I brought you news that I’d written a course for The Writers Bureau. It’s a course all about helping writers struggling with writer’s block and those who have found that life has got in the the way of their writing. If you’d like to find out more about Re-discover your love…

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  • It’s Thursday so it’s time for a short story. Here’s a new challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 35 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: The previous prompt was to tell a story in 40 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your hilarious…

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