Hello everyone and welcome back again. This week is a slightly different challenge as it requires you to bring the material…we want you to find an everyday object in your house and turn it into a magical one through creative writing.

Read this example and create your own. You can choose any object you like, but unusual ones or colourful ones might work better.

As soon as you touched the paperweight it was as though electricity was running through it. It hummed with tiny yet rapid movement and energy. If you left your hand on it for more than a second, the indigo, violet, black and grey flashes of colour would suddenly start to rotate, swoop and glide around each other like a solar system of stars in a complex dance both avoiding and chasing each other. The longer you touched the paperweight, the faster its contents would move until it became a sea of purple which sparkled with silver. And then the real magic happened. Because somehow, by some means, if you held on to it long enough, the paperweight could tell you your future. It was never in words; it was more of a feeling or a vision. It was an extremely strange, not quite painful, but uncomfortable feeling that would spread up your arm and into your chest, creep up your neck and into your jaw and you’d have to clench your teeth so tight to make it even slightly bearable. Next, it would feel as though something had flown up your nose directly into your brain and then, that was it, you would see it. A glimpse from your future. Before your eyes. And the longer you could stand to hold on to the paperweight, the more you could see. But it was near impossible to cling on, the sensation was so bizarre, so utterly unpleasant. Many people would only ever dare to try it once. You might only find out what you were doing the next day. Or you might find out something vital. That was the luck of the thing.