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Sunday Prompt: 31st August 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 yellow post-it note with ‘OOPS!’ written in capitals. The post-it note has some clear tape running diagonally at…

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

Hello everyone. Woefully late – sorry – I’m delighted to announce the results of the fourteenth 50-word competition on the theme of ‘The main character is an inanimate object’. Sadly, as I suspected would happen, some stories were disqualified as the main character was human, with mention of an inanimate object. This theme is one of my favourites but often tricky to get one’s head around, and not…

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Word Count Wednesday: 27th Aug 2025

Hello and welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? No writing this week but I have a plan! From next week onwards – because this Monday was a bank holiday so T and I were helping out at his parents’ church’s flower festival’s refreshments kitchen (that day raised over £800 from card sales alone!), as we did Saturday afternoon – I’m going to have every Monday just for…

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Sunday Prompt: 24th August 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 section of a yellow tape measure, from 99 inches to 101 inches with black lettering at these numbers and red words…

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Word Count Wednesday: 20 Aug 2025

Hello and welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? I’ve been catching up at a fantastic (almost) week at Swanwick Writing School in gorgeous Derbyshire. It was so lovely seeing friends again and making new ones. I hosted two sessions which were very well received and have already put myself forward for doing (at least) the quiz next year! It does mean I’ve done little…

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Sunday Prompt: 17th August 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 lovely orange sunset casting shadows over mountains. There are c.20 ‘black’ birds in the sky which is deep orange on…

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Word Count Wednesday: 13 Aug 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? I’m writing this before heading off to Swanwick Summer Writing School, a mix of teaching (two days) and ‘jolly’ (attending other sessions and socialising) so possibly no writing, although there is early morning writing time each day so hopefully… Have you taken a look at my ‘300 Words a Day’ podcast? There should be…

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Sunday Prompt: 10th August 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 work desk with several pink items: an analogue watch, two slim pens, the edge of a notebook and a lovely deep purple…

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Word Count Wednesday: 6th Aug 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? I’ve been preparing for Swanwick Writers School this coming weekend to Wednesday, including buying a cowgirl outfit for a fancy dress evening! I’m teaching two sessions (on writing competitions and editing) so that’ll be fun too. I ran a writing podcast from 2010 to 2012 until life took over. I’ve come up with the idea…

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Sunday Prompt: 3rd August 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 black and white photograph shows a small silver rectangular spy camera on a silver chain sat on top of a ‘Top Secret’ file. Unless…

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Word Count Wednesday: 30 July 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? No consequences story although I have invited visitors to my blog to challenge me to give me some prompts! I’ve started a story for a writing competition so I’ll let you know how I get on with that. Do leave a comment below to share your progress, successes and otherwise, and of course anything else that’s happened to…

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Sunday Prompt: 27th July 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 monochrome photograph shows a horizontal close-up shot of a chess board with the white pieces blurred in the foreground, the black…

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FLASH CHALLENGE

Would you like to challenge me to write a flash fiction story? I’d love you to. If you email me the following components, I’ll do my best to write a story to that specification. I’ll then publish them as part of my Word Count Wednesday posts along with your name. If you have a website you’re welcome to include that link. So email me (morgen@morgenbailey.com – NB I’m Morgen with an ‘E’) with the…

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Word Count Wednesday: 23 July 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? As per last week, I’ve done a little writing. I gave another workshop for a writing group I belong to last Thursday evening and did the round-robin consequences game at the end. The prompts were: 365-word comedy with Katie and Bertie in a basement with a lime green fox and one of them is happy. I forgot it was supposed…

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Sunday Prompt: 20th July 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 bright green cactus with two armlike offshoots, the one on the left higher, the other on the right lower but…

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

Hello everyone. I’m delighted to announce the results of the fourteenth 50-word competition on the theme of ‘The year Dot’. 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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Word Count Wednesday: 16 July 2025

Good morning. Welcome to Word Count Wednesday. How have you been getting on? I’ve been back from Australia for a week so have a lot of catching up to do. Also I have been preparing for an unexpected workshop (volunteering when the original host had to back out) tomorrow night. I have done some writing; a 743-word historical story (supposed to be 426 words!) from a workshop I hosted on Monday with…