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  • Here’s to a great new week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows: FLOOR Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word HOUSE in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Channing: How frequently must I explainOnly ducks should be out in the rain?Unless I can seeSomething in it for meExpect…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: DRIVE So can you tell a story in five words using the word in it somewhere? Your word last week was BILL. Here are your BILL stories: Keith Channing: My gas bill is atrocious. Electric car: no petrol bill.…

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  • Here’s to a great new week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows: HOUSE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word BOIL in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Channing: Popeye’s special friend, Olive Oyl,Developed a massive great boilLike one of her toesHad grown from her nose;It even made…

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  • It’s Thursday once again and that means five-word story time. Your new word this week is: BILL So can you tell a story in five words using the word in it somewhere? Your word last week was CHIN. Here are your CHIN stories: Keith Channing: No, not watchin’. What chin? Shutup or I’ll chin you!…

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  • Here’s to a great new week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows: LEAD Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word CHIP in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces: Keith Channing: I met an old schoolmate called ChipWho needed a replacement hip.He’d changed both his kneesWith relative easeBut cried when…

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  • A Step Closer

    A long, long time ago (well, not that long ago really), my how-to book, Publication Guaranteed (well, almost!) came out as an ebook. Many of you asked if there would be a paperback version. Yes, I replied. It’ll be out soon. Two years on, we’re almost there. Why has it taken so long? you may…

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  • 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: RICH So can you tell a story in five words using the word RICH in it somewhere? Your word last week was NAIL. Here are your NAIL stories: Keith Channing: Nail the sail – or fail. Nail on the…

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  • As many of you know, I’m a tutor for The Writers Bureau, which I thoroughly enjoy. Recently, we’ve joined the virtual teaching world and have been tutoring some Zoom courses. They’ve been great fun and have ranged from Making Money From Your Non-Fiction, to Flash Fiction, to Rediscovering Your Writing Mojo. I’ve loved teaching in…

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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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