writing prompts
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This week’s writing prompt is: SEASONS Which is your favourite season? Mine is autumn. I love the glorious golds, oranges and reds as the leaves turn. There’s also a crisp freshness to the air and the crackle of the log burner once inside. The differing seasons can make a great theme for a poem, or…
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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: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 28 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your entertaining stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: The snail slime…
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This week’s writing prompt is: WORK My first job was working in Halfords, a British car parts retailer. I’ll never forget the enormous overalls I had to wear. I left Halford’s after a few months for McDonald’s, which offered much better pay – and free food! But I hated the job and lasted three weeks.…
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This week’s writing prompt is: Home Even though I’ve moved up north (well, not really up north but a lot further north than I used to be!), I still refer to home as down south in Berkshire. It’s where I was born and lived for forty-odd years. I love it where I live now, with…
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It’s Monday and time for a new limerick challenge to kick-start your week. Your new word is: WINK Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word YAWN in it somewhere. You came up with some great limericks: Cee Tee Jackson: YAWN OF THE DEAD. There once was a ‘dead’ man called Shaun Whose…
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It’s Thursday so I have a new story challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 16 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 50 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your funny stories: Christine Mallaband-Brown: Please…
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This week’s writing prompt is: Phobia What does that word mean to you? My phobia is spiders. I try and rationalise it to myself. They’re small and here, in the UK, they’re not poisonous so they can’t harm me. But it doesn’t help! You could write about a real phobia, or you could make one…
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Happy Monday! Here’s a new limerick challenge to kick-start your week. Your new word is: TEACH Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word LUCK in it somewhere. You came up with some amusing limericks: Keith Channing: When Robin Hood met Friar Tuck He thought, “Who’s this overfed schmuck?” When he saw Tuck…
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This week’s writing prompt is: CITIES One of my favourite cities is Rome. I’ll never forget the way the Colosseum took my breath away as I stood in the middle, the sights and sounds of the years before playing out before me. Nor the creamy taste of the delicious pasta as it slid down my…
Esther Chilton 