A good friend of mine and fellow writer Karen Sanders has issued a Writing Challenge, where every week she will give out a list of 10 words, and you have to write a short story that includes all of those words, in their exact form. This is not only great fun, it also helps to overcome writers block, and you never know what stories the submitters are going to come up with.

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This week’s published articles include Emma Watson’s new hair style, a great Offbeat News edition, slide shows of the Hamble River between Swanwick and Warsash, and memorials where the British Commandos left for Normandy and the D-Day Invasion.

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This is a summary of articles that I have published in the last week, and includes tips for writing and promotion, photographs of Southsea, Deer Creek in Florida and a walk from Swanwick to Warsash in Hampshire. It also includes commentaries on a number of news items, including the Vicar who conducted hundreds of phony marriages, and the problem with counterfeit pound coins in the UK.

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If you enjoy my Offbeat News articles and love to read about the weird things that have been going on around the world, please can you help to make these more popular by visiting my Squidoo lens on Offbeat News and sharing it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg and other social networking sites that you use, or just email the link to family and friends.

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