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How was your weekend? Cold, if you live here in the UK! Here’s an apt new limerick challenge for the start to this week: SNOW Least week’s prompt was CHANGE. You came up with some great limericks: Trent: There once was a man from Boston With a house big enough to get lost in The…
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I wrote a blog post a while ago, hinting that I would soon have some book news regarding a dragon. Well, I thought it about time I enlightened you. A number of years ago, I wrote a chapter book series for children aged 5-7 years old. There were six books in the series and I…
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I met the lovely Graham Bartlett at a writing event this year where we were both teaching. Graham is a former police detective and now writes crime fiction, as well as acting as a police advisor to authors and TV writers. If you need help with your police procedurals or any element of crime fiction,…
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As it was Christmas, I gave you two weeks for the last challenge. We’re back to normal this week. So… Can you tell a story in 18 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: RESOLUTIONS CUSTARD HAIRDRYER The previous prompt was to tell a story in 25 words using the following…
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I hope you’re all having a good 2025 so far (well, it has only been a few hours!). Your writing prompt this week is FAVOURITE 2024 MOMENTS As we welcome another new year in, we often look back over the past 12 months. There will have been good times and bad times, but let’s focus…
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I hope you all had a great Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wished for! The New Year is almost here and with a new year brings: CHANGE So that’s your new limerick challenge this week. You had longer to craft your limericks this time with the Christmas break, so here are you limericks…
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As it’s Christmas (almost), you have two weeks in which to dazzle us with your story. Here is your Christmas challenge: Can you tell a story in 25 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: SCROOGE GNOME CHIMNEY GLOWING Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 40 words using…
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As Christmas is just around the corner and time is precious (see what I did there with last week’s prompt. I know, you’re all groaning), you have two weeks to work on the next writing prompt, which is PLANS As we’re coming to the end of one year and are about to embark on a…
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Isn’t Christmas hurtling closer and closer? I’m sure you’re all very busy like me, so for this limerick challenge, you have two weeks instead of the usual one. I’ll publish all your wonderful limericks on Monday 30th December. Your new word is: SLEIGH Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word HOUSE in…
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In my latest series, I’m taking you on a tour of my desk buddies, who watch over me as I work, or who help me in some way. This week, I’m sharing my Harry Potter pot with you. I saw this in a shop a few years ago and, being a massive Harry Potter fan,…
