writing prompts
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Last week, your writing prompt was LIGHT. So I thought it fitting to go for the opposite this week: DARK. The word has so many meanings – a dark sky or night, for instance. Or what about darkness in someone’s soul? It also symbolises death, despair and deceit. We can also think about it in…
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Happy new week! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you – your new word is: GRIM Last week’s prompt was CHILL. You came up with some amusing limericks: Kim Smyth: There once was a dude who could chill So cool, he did not even need a pill Never spoke a bad word Good vibes only heard…
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It’s Thursday, so it’s story time. Can you tell a story in 41 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week’s challenge was to write a story in 30 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here are your laugh out loud stories: Niki Daly: That devious chicken – he’s only bricked…
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Now the clocks have changed, it’s getting lighter in the evenings. So that got me thinking about the word ‘light’. It can mean so many different things. A lightness in feeling, lightweight, a light bulb moment, daylight, sunlight, twilight, artificial light, on and on it goes. What does it mean to you? Or perhaps it’s…
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We’re back to normal this week – just the one challange: Can you tell a story in 30 words using the following words in it somewhere: Last week I gave you two challenges to take part in if you wished. The first was to write a story of 7 words using the word IMPOSTER in…
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I gave my writing group this week’s prompt and they came up with some really interesting pieces of writing. So I thought I’d see what you make of it. Your word this week is WAITING What does this word mean to you? Waiting for a hospital appointment? For a delivery to the house? Perhaps it’s…
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Before the British Reader’s Digest closed, I used to write funny true-life anecdotes for them. There were so many of them! Here’s one: I was having a cup of tea at a friend’s house one morning when my phone went. It was my five-year-old daughter’s school. She wasn’t feeling very well. The roads were busy,…
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Nowadays the only things I receive through the post are bills and junk mail. I remember the days when I had a couple of pen pals. One was from the States and another from Hong Kong. I was about fifteen at the time. I used to love writing letters with my fountain pen and then…
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Happy new week. I hope it’s a good one for you. Your fresh limerick challenge this week is: KILT Last week’s prompt was FRIES. You came up with some funny limericks: Kim Smyth: There once was a man making fries, Their ingredients were a big surprise Not potato as suspected But plantain; not expected! Delightful to…
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How’s your week going to far? Hasn’t Thursday come round quickly?! Here’s a new story challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 40 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: The previous prompt was to tell a story in 24 words using the following words in it somewhere: Here…
Esther Chilton 