flash fiction

  • My Weekly Writing Challenge

    This is the last opportunity for you to take up the challenge in my latest series. This week, we reach the magical 100-word mark, so please send me your 100-word stories. You’ll have a little longer than usual as my Thursday challenge day falls on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, so the next challenge…

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  • I’ve written about flash fiction a few times but some of you are still a little confused as to what it is. Here’s some further detail and an example. Perhaps it’ll inspire you to enter a competition or to send me some for ‘My Weekly Writing Challenge’. There’s still time to send a diary entry…

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  • As I promised last week, if you felt inspired to send me a limerick, you’ll find it here, as well as my new challenge for you at the end. Remember, I’ll publish each one on my blog this time next week.   This great limerick from Keith Channing gets the ball rolling: A trendy young…

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  • My Writing Week

    It doesn’t seem five minutes ago that it was half-term but next week signals the end of another term and a trip overseas. I’m looking forward to a break but with lots of marking still to do and deadlines to meet before then it still seems a long way off. Though, as always, it’ll all…

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