Esther Chilton

fiction

  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Slow down! With life as hectic as it is, writing often has to be slotted in around the day job, family life, housework etc. So sending pieces of writing off is often something of a rush. Slow it down. If you’re hoping to catch the last post and send your competition entry off, or are…

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  • My Writing Week

    What can I say? Third week into January and things are going pretty well, with deadlines met and some new writing opportunities in the pipeline. Only another 49 weeks to go and then I’ll have had a cracking year! I hope your year is going well so far. As promised, I’ve started a new page,…

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Don’t Aim Too High It’s the beginning of January and a time for New Year resolutions. How many times, as a writer, have you thought along the following lines, This is it – this is going to be the year I write my best-selling novel, win the Bridport Prize, have critics clamoring about my collection…

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  • My Writing Week

    After the excitement of Father Christmas and parties for New Year, I thought it would take me a while to dust off my writing hat and set to work again. But it’s actually been quite refreshing to get back to it and the break has given me the opportunity to let my mind work at…

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  • My Writing Week

    Only a few days to go so I’m sure you’re like me – looking forward to the time off but a mountain to climb before you get there! My market to add to the ‘Markets For Freelancers’ page is Chapman, a literary magazine, which is held in high regard: For ‘Chapman’, it’s all about the…

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    No one likes a clever clogs! We’ve all read stories where we’re left thinking, ‘Is it just me or does this ending not make the slightest bit of sense?’ So don’t try to be too clever with your story. If your reader has to keep going over the ending to understand it, it could ruin…

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  • A Fun, Festive, Feel-good Story

    With Christmas just around the corner and heads full of cards, wrapping paper, lists, present buying, Christmas dos and much much more, ideas for stories, articles and poems with a Christmas theme easily come to mind. If they do, great, jot them down but save them for late summer/early autumn next year. It’s no good…

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  • My Writing Week

    I’ve a few interesting projects on the go at the moment and at the start of the week they weren’t going well, but fingers crossed, things seem to be coming together. My market of the week for you is ‘Writers’ Forum’: You can find a copy of this monthly publication in selected newsagents, but if…

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Homophone Headache! Yesterday in my writing exercise for you, I asked you to spot ten deliberate mistakes in a page of text. One of the mistakes was a homophone (aloud/allowed) where the words sound the same but have a different meaning. It’s so easy to type the wrong word but always look at the context…

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  • Monstrous Mistakes!

    In my blog, I’ve mentioned the importance of checking your work through for mistakes. It’s so easy to miss a full stop off the end of a sentence, misspell a word, place speech marks in the wrong place, leave a word out or add one in where there shouldn’t be one and so on. Some…

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