Esther Chilton

fiction

  • Don’t Neglect The Small Press

    Somewhere to Start It can be difficult to know where to send your writing. The ‘Writers and Artists’ Year Book’ is full of agents, publishers and mainstream magazines and newsagents’ shelves are growing to fit the plethora of magazines published weekly, monthly and so on. Yet, it isn’t just a case of sending work off…

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  • My Writing Week

    Although I took a week off from my blog, I was still tutoring throughout the week, mixed in with motherly duties such as baking giant cookies and be taken on adventures on the X-box! We also managed a few trips out but now it’s nose to the grindstone with plenty of deadlines lurking on the…

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  • My Writing Week

    As it’s half-term next week and I’ll be dividing my time between work and motherhood duties, it’s been a frantic week to say the least. I haven’t managed to send out seven pieces of work, as I did this time last week, but I’m up to five so that’s not bad going.   My market…

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Contractions Building on my tip from last week, this week contractions is the subject of my top tip. A contraction is where words are shortened. As the words are being shortened, an apostrophe needs to be used to indicate the missing letters e.g. I’m is short for I am and so the apostrophe highlights that…

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    It’s Or Its? We’re taught that an apostrophe should be used to indicate ownership e.g. ‘Sarah’s handbag’ tells us that the handbag belongs to Sarah. So surely the same applies the ‘it’s’? The answer is no (I know, our crazy English language!). So, the rule is, when using ‘its’, no apostrophe is necessary for ownership.…

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  • My Writing Week

    By the end of Monday, my shoulders were right up by my ears and I was shaking my head, sure that this week was going to be one of those weeks. But, up bright and early Tuesday morning, I took a deep breath and decided to forget about Monday and to start afresh. It’s not…

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  • 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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