by EmerTynan | Jan 29, 2021 | Fiction
As I sat in my tiny kitchen, where the walls were damp and crumbling, and the appliances were almost all broken, I smiled. Soon, I would be gone from this prison that I had had to call my home for the last 10 years. The letter clutched tightly in my hand held my...
by Booklover2013 | Jan 29, 2021 | Fiction
As you may or may not know, Mr Dinner is not your usual purple bear, and therefore you may not be surprised to find out that he regularly brought a lottery ticket… One day his numbers were called up. Mr Dinner was now a millionaire with a million pounds to his name....
by nicola | Jan 29, 2021 | #WritersByNight, Fiction
This story opening was written in response to an ongoing Writing Challenge set for my Year 6 writing group, inspired by Philip Pullman’s Little Red Riding Hood and The Girl in Red by Roberto Innocenti.. Murky Mudlarking Becky and Stan met in their usual...
by nicola | Jan 11, 2021 | #WritersByNight, Fiction
I wrote this second draft of what became a story opening following a week of online teaching at the beginning of a Spring term that at the last minute found itself online. The children had been given a copy of Little Red Riding Hood from Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales...
by Billybeanwrites | Oct 21, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Fiction
It was time to head back home. The walk with the kids at the nature reserve had been a little respite. Beautiful trees and birds, a change from lockdown telly and squabbles as we traipsed through the forest in search of a stone statue of a Green Knight which was...
by nicola | Sep 20, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Fiction
There is so much writing inspiration to be found in the everyday; things that lie doormat until one day they become useful in our writing lives. This morning on Twitter, Mathew Tobin shared a carefully crafted sign his five-year-old son had made: Warning. The sign...
