Walton Wordsmiths
Dear friends, visitors and fellow readers and writers, welcome to our Walton Wordsmiths website.
Now that summer is upon us we are all out and about more, but the magic of Zoom means that, wherever we are, we can still … Read on...
Have any of you ever tried writing a whodunnit? Every thriller is one to some extent, because things like who did what and why have to be concealed from the reader until later on in the story, or its end, … Read on...
Summer sun has seen us all writing again. Time spent on administrative chores has been replaced with writing short stories which we read to each other and then critique. We aim to encourage and to improve our skills. So far, … Read on...
Well here we are at the beginning of May with some lock down restrictions still in place. Walton Wordsmiths continue to meet on Zoom, although we all hope to see each other in person before too long. Zoom has been … Read on...
Welcome to our new website!
It has been made possible following a generous grant from the R. C. Sherriff Trust. Thank you! There are also many other people to thank!
Thanks to Tim Mitchell for helping us get this up … Read on...
“He’s done this to spite me,” said Joanna Straker, head of Finance at the UK branch of IPL.
“Who has?” asked Caroline Kent, the new head of Personnel, as for the moment it was still called. “And … Read on...
Dear Santa
I was eight when I last wrote to you, that would be forty five years ago. Each year Mummy would post what I had written, or so she said, because you had told her where … Read on...
With finger poised in position Jo hesitated, was this really such a good idea. It had seemed a brilliant idea at the time, but then Jo often had flashes of inspiration that turned out to be terrible … Read on...