ideas for writers
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Many of you enjoy writing flash fiction and a lot of you also like a prompt to kick-start your ideas. Here’s a market which marries the two: 100wordstory is a site which publishes all sorts of 100 word stories. One of the stories they publish is from a monthly photo prompt. There’s no fee and
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This week’s market is the Daggerville Games Short Story Competition. They run a monthly competition with a chance to win a £30 Waterstones voucher. Details of the competition are posted on their Facebook page. For rules and further information on the competition, visit their website. ***
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Top Tips… For Writing Anniversary Pieces Every day is the anniversary of a famous person’s birth or death, historical event or the invention of something which changed lives. Articles based on these anniversaries make for fascinating reading and a lot of magazines pay very well for them. Here are some tips to help your anniversary
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Mmmm, I knew it was coming – the Y and Z but it wasn’t easy to come up with short story themes; well, half decent ones anyway. I’m not sure you would appreciate ‘ yoyo’ or ‘zumba’ but you never know! Y is for Yearn: What is your character yearning for? Is it a person?
Esther Chilton 