writing
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Last week, I was guest blogger on ‘The Writers Bureau’ weekly blog. My tip advised writers not to throw away old work. You might be able to tweak an article or story and send it to a different market. Even if you look at a piece of work and think Yes, I can see why…
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It seems as if flash fiction is a firm favourite amongst you and I received some hugely entertaining stories for my weekly challenge last week. See them below. My new weekly challenge builds on the opening line challenge from a fortnight ago. This time I’m giving you the last line of a story: Perhaps tomorrow…
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Apologies for interrupting my weekly series to bring you news of the launch of my book. Normal business is now resumed! But I would like to thank you all for the support you’ve given me with the book 🙂 This week, I’m covering the D, E and F of short story ideas. I hope they…
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Take a deep breath and just do it! In my role as a writing tutor and through meeting lots of writers through various media, I’ve found that many don’t send their work out. The reason? For some, they simply enjoy writing and want to write for themselves which is fine. For others they’re too scared,…
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I had some very interesting, intriguing and exciting interpretations of my opening line challenge: ‘She wished she hadn’t opened the letter’. Read them below and enjoy. Yesterday my market of the week was for a daily flash fiction competition, which invites stories of between 20-100 words. So to get you in the mood to enter,…
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This week’s market will be added to my ‘More Markets For Freelancers Page‘. I know a lot of you enjoy flash fiction as evidenced by the delightful stories in the recent challenges I’ve run so I’ve found a market which invites writers to send in stories of between 20-100 words: ‘Just 100 Words’ is a…
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I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll give the bottom tourist attraction a miss: Â
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My series of short story ideas will be back for next week so apologies to those of you who were looking forward to the D,E, and F of short story ideas. It’ll be worth the wait – I promise! I’m interrupting my series to bring news of my book, which was launched on Saturday:Â Â …
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Building on my top tip from last week and the topic of dialogue, how do you differentiate between direct speech and indirect speech? New writers are often confused so here’s some help: Direct speech is where the character says the words for himself e.g.: “How dare you copy my answers! I’ve worked hard for this…
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Well, thank you Barb for last week’s inspirational challenge. It certainly inspired and there are some strong, emotive pieces for you all to read below. If any of you have any ideas for one of my weekly writing challenges, please contact me. I’d love to know your thoughts.  My new challenge for you is…
Esther Chilton 