writing challenges

  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: WRONG So can you tell a story in five words using the word in it somewhere? Your word last week was RICH. Here are your RICH stories: Keith Channing: Rich is as rich does. Is Rich really so rich?…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: FEAR So can you tell a story in five words using the word FEAR in it somewhere? Your word last week was TRAIN. Here are your TRAIN stories: Keith Channing: Train hard to catch trainRunning for train is trainingAvoid…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: TRAIN So can you tell a story in five words using the word TRAIN in it somewhere? Your word last week was POETRY. Here are your POETIC stories: Keith Channing: Non-rhyming poetry is pretty prose. Poetry needs metre and…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: POETRY So can you tell a story in five words using the word POETRY in it somewhere? Your word last week was SACRIFICE. Here are your SACRIFICED stories: Keith Channing: Electoral Commission compromised — democracy sacrificed. Sacrifice? Don’t get…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: DISCOUNT So can you tell a story in five words using the word DISCOUNT in it somewhere? Your word last week was POOR. Here are your POOR stories: Keith Channing: The poor pore over bills. Poor Trevor is very…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: POOR So can you tell a story in five words using the word POOR in it somewhere? Your word last week was TEAM. Here are your TEAM stories: Keith Channing: Team and mate are anagrams. So are team and…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: TEAM So can you tell a story in five words using the word TEAM in it somewhere? Your word last week was PARDON. Here are your PARDONED stories: Keith Channing: “Prince says ‘pardon’ after burping.” Was that a royal…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: PARDON So can you tell a story in five words using the word PARDON in it somewhere? Last week’s word was ADOPT. Here are your ADOPTED stories: Keith Channing: Adopt a rescue dog today. Don’t adopt that attitude, Pal!…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: ADOPT So can you tell a story in five words using the word ADOPT in it somewhere? Last week’s word was FAMILY. Here are your FAMILY stories: Keith Channing: You cannot choose your family. Family is but friends are.…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: FAMILY So can you tell a story in five words using the word FAMILY in it somewhere? Last week’s word was SPELL. Here are your SPELLING stories: Keith Channing: Spell your assignation, be proud, Project it aloft to the…

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