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Esther’s Challenge – Laugh-along-a-Limerick

Happy New Week to you all and welcome, once again, to Esther Chilton’s regular Monday challenge.

Today, Esther’s one-word prompt is CHEEK. So can you write a limerick using the word CHEEK in it somewhere?

If you want to swerve around the weekly prompt, please feel free to ignore it and write a limerick to suit your current mood and feelings. Just let it flow. Delight us all with your creativity.

Post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

Esther’s Challenge – Can You Tell A Story In . . .

It is Thursday and time for your latest five-word story challenge from Esther Chilton. 

This week, her single word prompt is MIRROR. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word MIRROR in it somewhere?

Here’s your starter:

Reflections are sometimes mirror images.

Please post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

MIRROR?

This is an open invitation to all of my followers and Esther’s to have some fun with words.
The only limits are the boundaries of your imagination.

Esther and I await your submissions. Make us laugh and and entertain all of our followers with your witty flashes.

Esther’s Challenge – Laugh-along-a-Limerick

Happy New Week to you all and welcome, once again, to Esther Chilton’s regular Monday challenge.

Today, Esther’s one-word prompt is DEED. So can you write a limerick using the word DEED in it somewhere?

If you want to swerve around the weekly prompt, please feel free to ignore it and write a limerick to suit your current mood and feelings. Just let it flow. Delight us all with your creativity.

Post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

Esther’s Challenge – Can You Tell A Story In . . .

It is Thursday and time for your latest five-word story challenge from Esther Chilton. 

This week, her single word prompt is WARM. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word WARM in it somewhere?

Please post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

This is an open invitation to all of my followers and Esther’s to have some fun with words.
The only limits are the boundaries of your imagination.

Here’s your starter:

Your smile warms my heart.

Esther and I await your submissions. Make us laugh and and entertain all of our followers with your witty flashes.

Esther’s Challenge – Laugh-along-a-Limerick

Happy New Week to you all and welcome, once again, to Esther Chilton’s regular Monday challenge.

Today, Esther’s one-word prompt is LURK. So can you write a limerick using the word LURK in it somewhere?

If you want to swerve around the weekly prompt, please feel free to ignore it and write a limerick to suit your current mood and feelings. Just let it flow. Delight us all with your creativity.

Post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

Esther’s Challenge – Can You Tell A Story In . . .

It is Thursday and time for your latest five-word story challenge from Esther Chilton. 

This week, her single word prompt is SCREAM. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word SCREAM in it somewhere?

Please post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

This is an open invitation to all of my followers and Esther’s to have some fun with words.
The only limits are the boundaries of your imagination.

Here’s your starter:

Are you singing or screaming?

Esther and I await your submissions. Make us laugh and and entertain all of our followers with your witty flashes.

Esther’s Challenge – Laugh-along-a-Limerick

Happy Monday to you all and welcome, once again, to Esther Chilton’s regular Limerick challenge.

Esther and I have just returned from a great week at the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School.

Esther delivered an excellent workshop entitled ‘Location! Location! Location!’ which went down very well with a roomful of delegates who threw themselves into the exercises. Our esteemed tutor majored on placing the reader in a location by showing rather than telling and on using the five, or six, senses to do so. The participants produced some very good work in the short time that they were given. They presented their efforts to their classmates and received rapturous applause.

Today, Esther’s one-word prompt is SWEET. So can you write a limerick using the word SWEET in it somewhere?

If you feel like writing a limerick about something else that is currently on your mind, have a go! Just let it flow. Delight us all with your creativity.

Post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

Esther’s Challenge – Can You Tell A Story In . . .

Here we are on Day 6 of the splendiferous Swanwick Writers’ Summer School (Thursday) and time for your latest five-word story challenge from Esther Chilton. 

Esther presented an excellent one hour workshop at the school yesterday, entitled ‘Location! Location! Location!’ At the end of her workshop she issued a series of challenges to those lucky delegates who were able to attend.

Here’s her challenge for you.

This week, her single word prompt is STICKY. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word STICKY in it somewhere?

Please post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

Esther Chilton

This is an open invitation to all of my followers and Esther’s to have some fun with words.
The only limits are the boundaries of your imagination.

Here’s your starter:

Everybody likes sticky toffee pudding.

Esther and I await your submissions. Make us laugh and and entertain all of our followers with your witty flashes.

Esther’s Challenge – Laugh-along-a-Limerick

Happy New Week to you all and welcome, once again, to Esther Chilton’s regular Monday challenge. Sorry that I am a bit late. I am fortunate enough to be spending my week at the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School. Tonight’s entertainment is an open mic poetry evening.

Today, Esther’s one-word prompt is RHYME. So can you write a limerick using the word RHYME in it somewhere?

If you feel like writing a limerick about something else that is currently on your mind, have a go! Just let it flow. Delight us all with your creativity.

Post your submissions in the Comments on this post.

Book Review: The First Cut by Val Penny

Rating: 5 out of 5.

This is the superb first episode of a crime thriller series set in Central Scotland featuring feisty DS Jane Renwick. The story moves at great pace and high tension from the first page to the last with plenty of danger and conflict.

Although Jane is taken off the case of tracking down a potential serial killer at an early stage because DNA analysis exposes probable close family links, she defies her bosses and becomes involved in some online research.

As detectives in Glasgow and Edinburgh close in on the killer, Jane is abducted. In chapters that are narrated in Jane’s own voice, the abductor reveals that he believes that it is for her own protection. Needless to say, Jane doesn’t see it that way.

There are a lot of characters in this book, many who have also appeared in the Hunter series, and there were times that I found it difficult to keep track of the various relationships.

That aside, this is a great read which I highly recommend. I can’t wait for book two in the series.