word prompts

  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is STAMP. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word STAMP in it somewhere? Here are your FRUIT stories from last week: Kim Smyth: Mis favorito fruta es manzanas! (my favorite fruit is apples!) Ritu: I should really…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – TRAIN Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was SPORT. Keith Channing: Sport can be fun, but I’m lazy. Perhaps I’m a little bit hazy, Only I see…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is FRUIT. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word FRUIT in it somewhere? Here are your THING stories from last week: Ritu: This thing, too, shall pass. Need to tell you something. Things are looking up, finally.…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – SPORT Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was GIFT. Keith Channing: A friendship that’s suffered a rift Can sometimes be healed by a gift. An ill thought-out…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is THING. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word THING in it somewhere? Here are your BATH stories from last week: Ritu: Bubble baths – my favourite treat. How do you say ‘bath’? Christine Mallaband-Brown: Bath, town…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – GIFT Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was BOSS. Keith Channing: If your company runs at a loss The person to blame is the boss. You have…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – BOSS Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was SUIT. Keith Channing: I thought it would be quite a hoot To go shopping in my birthday suit It…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is NIGHT – suggested by Lance Greenfield. Thank you, Lance! So can you tell a story in five words, using the word NIGHT in it somewhere? Here are your LETTERS stories from last week: Keith Channing: Letters make words make language. Ritu:…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – SUIT Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was WRONG. Keith Channing: Whether it be right or wrong, Ricky will still sing his song. Once he’s in flight,…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is LETTERS. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word LETTERS in it somewhere? Here are your PYJAMAS stories from last week: Kevin Morris: I’m still wearing her pyjamas. Pyjamas lost in the Bahamas. Strange pyjamas found in…

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