writing
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The lovely Sarah Evans, author, freelance writer and avid crafter, invited me to do a guest post about my book last week. In the post, I gave a brief overview of my book and included an extract from the book about rejection: Rejection is part and parcel of a writer’s life. I could paper my…
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I’ve been completely overwhelmed with the support and help the wonderful blogging community has given me with my new book, Publication Guaranteed (Well, Almost!). Last week, the lovely Sue Vincent invited me to appear on her blog: I’d always loved writing, right from when I was a little girl and I was sure I was…
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Last week, I was delighted to be interviewed by author, Sacha Black on her podcast, The Rebel Author Podcast. We spoke about how I was her writing tutor when she first started out many moons ago with The Writers Bureau, as well as about my new book and how writers can make money from readers’…
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It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. Last week, I wanted to know about your SLEEP. This week, I want to know about your EVENING. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word EVENING in it somewhere? Here are your SLEEPY stories from last week: Ritu: Sleep seem elusive,…
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It’s Monday! Again! It comes round so quickly. It’s also limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – MAD Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt was SCREECH: Keith Channing: Whilst studying night-flying fowl My gaze landed on a Screech Owl I thought it…
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I was delighted to be featured as a guest writer on The Writers Bureau’s blog yesterday: It was when one of my students had a reader’s letter published that the idea for my latest book started to take shape. “It’s only a reader’s letter,” she said, “but it means the world to me. I’m published!”…
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Thank you to everyone who entered my short story competition. I had some super entries, from a touching one about a mum, to a gripping one about the current pandemic. Then, there were humorous ones that made me laugh out loud, quirky ones that made me smile and several where the writer had thought outside…
Esther Chilton 