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It’s Friday and that must mean a new guest for my guest writer slot. This week I’m welcoming back Jean Harris. She first appeared in this slot a few weeks ago with her super piece, A Safe Place. She’s back with another piece of writing to make you smile: Green Fingers By Jean Harris Summer’s here…
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It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 50 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: CHESS WIGGLE MUESLI EMBRACE MOUSE PRINCE BLISTER COMPLAINT Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 23 words using the following words in it somewhere: HERO…
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This week’s writing prompt is: BEST DAY What’s been the best day in your life? The day you got married? Gave birth to your first child? Perhaps it was gaining a degree, going on a special holiday, moving into your dream home, or the day you got the all-clear from cancer. You may have had…
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This week’s guest writer is the delightful Val Fish, whose blog is sexagenarianscribbler. She produces some super responses to my challenges and has a love of limericks. Here are a few limericks from her latest book: With his sermon about to begin The priest had to suppress a huge grin Cos just minutes ago Out…
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It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 23 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: HERO LEATHER NOTES TRIANGLE AUBERGINE Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 47 words using the following words in it somewhere: TOFFEE RESIGN HOUSEPLANT FLING…
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This week’s writing prompt is: TIME What does TIME mean to you? Good times, spent with family and friends? Always being pushed for time? Happy memories of times in the past? Or perhaps you think of the future and the times that will bring. It might be a timepiece itself that holds special significance. You…
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It’s Thursday and story time. Here’s the latest story challenge: Can you tell a story in 47 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: TOFFEE RESIGN HOUSEPLANT FLING TABLET LADDER SLOGAN Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 39 words using the following words in it somewhere: CHAOS KNITTING…
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Happy Monday! Your weekly limerick challenge is here to kick-start your week. My apologies if I don’t comment on your limericks for a few days – I’m having surgery today so I may be out of action for a short while. I’ll comment when I can and I’ve scheduled a few posts for the forthcoming…
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Hi there! It’s time for a new story challenge: Can you tell a story in 39 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: CHAOS KNITTING ISLAND GRANDAD PLASTIC CHERRY Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere: PILLOW LOOT SLIME BALLROOM…
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Well, it’s Monday again. Doesn’t the weekend fly by?! Anyway, it’s time for a new limerick challenge to kick-start your week. Your new word is: THUMB Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word WINK in it somewhere. You came up with some really funny limericks: Trent’s World: Old Jim was a social…
