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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: H is for Heavy or Heavily
This week – the prompt is H is for heavy or heavily. This prompt can take you in loads of different directions: It can be as basic as someone or something is heavy. Why is whatever it is heavy? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage that it’s heavy? How does it affect your plot?…
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Poem: The Fancy-Dress Party
We’ve just had a fancy dress party – our family and some of our friends – It was really quite funny to see the grown-ups getting dressed up and playing “pretends”. My grandmother came as a teabag, and grandfather came as a bat, And Daddy turned out as King Arthur, while Mummy dressed up as…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: G is for Gold or Golden
This week – the prompt is G is for Gold or Golden Plenty of opportunities with this prompt – golden opportunities, you might say… There’s gold as in precious metal – gold bars, gold jewellery – new, antique or ancient, gold thread, gold teeth, gold filling, the gold earring that pirates are reputed to have…
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Poem: Building A Wardrobe
My uncles came to stay with me when I got my new pad; They came to do some DIY for which I was quite glad. They put me up some pantry shelves and stood back with great pride; I watched as jars and bottles slowly slid down to one side. I bought a rotary washing…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: F is for Flat
This week – the prompt is F is for Flat. You can go anywhere with this prompt. There’s flat as in smooth and level with an absence of lumps and bumps, whether that’s a landscape or a surface or a sheet of paper, the sea – anything like that, and obviously there’s the verb to…
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Poem: My Home Gym
I built myself a home gym so I could exercise, Replace my fat with muscle and tone my flabby thighs. My bingo wings I’d banish, my posture would improve, My body would be sculpted – how gracefully I’d move! I’d be so fit and agile, a marathon I’d run And maybe then I’d do a…
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First Review for Sticky Ends!
Thanks to Nick Pace for giving us our first review for Sticky Ends! Image courtesy of Amazon, where you can also buy the book! https://amzn.to/405MTlE
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: E is for Exercise
This week – the prompt is E is for Exercise. Of course there’s physical exercise – making your muscles work for whatever purpose, e.g. getting fit, losing weight, improving balance and co-ordination, and often there’s a social element to it as well, as in keep-fit classes or dance your way to fitness, that sort of…
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Short Fiction: Antonia’s Thank-You Letter
Dearest Sylvie, Thank you so much for a splendid evening at your birthday party on Saturday. I can’t remember the last time I went to such a shindig. The birthday cake in the shape of Balmoral Castle was a triumph of the confectioners’ art, and it was such a shame that Steven’s mistimed swing of…