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I came across this photo of my grandad and I recently. It made me smile; I’d been so lucky to have such a great relationship with my grandad and saw him all the time when I was growing up. But the photo also made me a little sad and it brought back memories of when…
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This week’s market is an ongoing one. The 1000 Word Challenge sets a new competition every three months. There’s usually a theme. The current competition is as follows: Your story must start with the following direct speech: ‘Stop!’ – Entries up to 1000 words are accepted. The closing date is 28th February 2017. There’s an…
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I hope you’ve all recovered from your New Year celebrations. If you’re looking to get back into the writing groove, here are a few prompts for you: A fresh start The dark place Monsters I’d love to see your writing on any of these themes. Anything goes! Now, last week, your theme was New Year.…
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When I sent out an appeal for ideas for the theme of my next mini competition, little did I know that I’d have hundreds of responses. You certainly made my job of picking a winning theme difficult. So I then decided to choose three winning themes. Well, you came up with so many good themes…
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Ah, so that’s where I’ve been going wrong…
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This week’s writing challenge is a day late thanks to entertaining and cooking for a houseful yesterday. It was a wonderful, noisy, fun day! I hope you all had a special Christmas with your loved ones. This week’s theme is, of course, New Year. You can write a story, poem, limerick…the choice is yours. Last…
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Competition Time! Three weeks ago, I set a mini-competition within a mini-competition! Lots of you took part in my latest flash fiction competition where I set the theme of ‘The Discovery’. The results can be read here, if you missed them. I’m now looking at running my next mini-competition, but I’m not quite sure of the theme to…
Esther Chilton 