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Word Count Wednesday: 25 June 2025

Good morning from Australia! Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? We came out to Australia / Samoa for a family wedding, which was wonderful, and dry, thankfully, as it’s winter here. I use that term quite liberally as it’s still as warm as a decent UK day although having been asked to bring the sun back, a heatwave arrived! We’ve seen hopping kangaroos and a variety of…

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Sunday Prompt: 22nd June 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s photograph shows a white Tesla car at an intersection with a silver Ford pick-up truck a few feet behind it to its left. Unless there’s…

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Word Count Wednesday: 18 June 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? Greetings from Samoa! We spent a few days in Australia then came to Samoa for a family wedding. The wifi’s not brilliant here so I’ll keep this short. Before leaving I’d started (half of chapter 1) ‘Henry Moves House’, another in my Henry Houdini dog detective series, although Gwynne, his mum, has just dropped a…

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Sunday Prompt: 15th June 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s illustration shows a pair of trees with mid-brown bark and very green foliage. The background is white. Unless there’s a name, only the…

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Sunday Prompt: 8th June 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s photograph shows a very snowy urban scene, likely in America as the traffic lights are yellow. In the distance is a red shop at the foot…

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Results of Morgen’s 50-word Competition – May 2025

Hello everyone. I’m delighted to announce the results of the thirteenth 50-word competition on the theme of ‘An unreliable narrator’. A very quiet month, with just six entries from four writers, so I’m guessing a tricky theme. Rather than have first, second, third and one honourable mention, we have two thirds so everyone gets something. 🙂 WINNER (receives a 1500-word editing credit or 30 minutes…

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Word Count Wednesday: 4 June 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? Nothing from me this week as I bust a proverbial gut to get work done before some time off (to write!). 🙂 Do leave a comment below to share your progress, successes and otherwise, and of course anything else that’s happened to you, writing related, over the past seven days.

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Sunday Prompt: 1st June 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s photograph shows two men running on a beach facing away from the camera, the sand ahead of them in shadows. The man on the left is…

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Word Count Wednesday: 28 May 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? Nothing again this week but we had a successful move day on Friday for my elderly uncle from a house he’d been in since 1974 to a new (to him) apartment. I will be finishing work this Friday until early August(!) so plenty of time to get a lot (hopefully) of writing done, albeit around family events. Do leave a comment…

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Results of Morgen’s 50-word Competition – April 2025

Hello everyone. I’m delighted to announce the results of the twelfth 50-word competition on the theme of ‘Interrupting play’. You may be planning on writing as a career, if you’re not there already, so each month I will be sharing the top three stories in full as well as ‘honourable mentions’ so if you’re on the list, you can add this to your CV. If you’re not mentioned, don’t lose heart. In…

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Sunday Prompt: 25th May 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s photograph shows a robotic wrist/hand, positioned left to right, holding a dull pink brain. Unless there’s a name, only the first word…

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Word Count Wednesday: 21 May 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? A zero from me as I’ve been sorting out my uncle’s house move set for this Friday. Hopefully I’ll have something for next Wednesday but I do have a lot of client (and 50-word competition winner) editing so maybe not until I finish that Friday next week. Do leave a comment below to share your progress, successes and…

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Sunday Prompt: 11th May 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s illustration shows a disabled logo (figure in a wheelchair facing right) in horizontal multi-coloured ‘Pride’ colours; red at the top…

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Sunday Prompt: 4th May 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s illustration shows two people, both dark haired, sitting at a table with several sheets of ‘blank’ paper. A man is on the left as we…

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Sunday Prompt: 27th Apr 2025

Hello and welcome to this feature (inspired by Story A Day May) where I post a prompt, and accompanying – though not necessarily connected – picture*, so actually two prompts, formerly every day but now on a Sunday due to other commitments (sorry!). *This week’s photograph shows a field of (possibly) wheat with a strip of dull green in the background. Central to the shot is a European roe deer…

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Word Count Wednesday: 14 May 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? I’m delighted to report that I’ve done some writing! It’s only 500 words but I enjoyed it (as I always do writing flash fiction). I hosted a workshop recently for a Women’s Institute group and one of the exercises was to complete a consequences form: Number between 100 and 1000 (I received ‘500’) – this becomes the…

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Word Count Wednesday: 7 May 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? Sadly another zero from me but we’re due to exchange contracts this week (everything crossed) on my uncle’s house so light at the end of the cliched tunnel. Plus I’m winding down my editing and mentoring to have June and July off (so busy busy), resuming – and already being booked for – editing and mentoring in…