Last week’s challenge: “Over The Top Pulp Fiction Insanity“
I love shopping for paint because the paint colors are so bizarrely and uniquely named.
And I thought, hey, a challenge based on some of those colors would be kinda rad.
So, here’s the deal.
I’m going to list ten paint colors. Choose one. This chosen paint color forms the title to your story.
Bonus challenge: try to make color a big part of the story. In imagery, plot, character, whatever.
Here, then, are the colors:
Grasshopper Wing
Bone China
Timeless Lilac
Pageant Song
Burnt Tile
Fuchsia Kiss
Flamingo Dream
Glorious Gold
Mermaid Song
Flint Smoke
You, as usual, have one thousand words and one week to complete.
Due by Friday, the 25th, at noon.
Post at your blog. Link here. Now go color.
43 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: The Paint Color Title Scheme”
Ok, so…what color *is* Pageant Song? Purple? Green? Yellow? All the colors of the wind?
Little longer than 1000 words, sorry. That must mean it was a good prompt.
http://lindsaymawson.blogspot.ca/2012/05/flash-fiction-challenge-41-paint-colour.html
“Fuchsia Kiss”
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Popping my Flash Fiction cherry here…
http://quantumofthought.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/bone-china/
No bonus points for me though!
Very busy, so it’s short, but I couldn’t resist paint colors
http://darlene.underdahl.net/?p=155
While I can make a Pagent Song, I doubt I could Bone China…..
Flamigo Dreams only occur when I get some Glorious Gold and do a bit of Flint Smoking…
Ok, the story is called “The Price of the Mermaid’s Song” and is at
http://scottweberwriter.wordpress.com/
Done! Timeless lilac for me! Colour in story and 785 words.
http://amgray.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/flash-fiction-challenge.html
As they say in the TV programme Blue Peter, here’s one I prepared earlier.
And now here’s the link; stupid boy.
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I picked one of the colours purely at random, honest!
Behold “Glorious Gold”, a little over length but not much : http://narratorium.com/2012/05/19/glorious-gold/
Bit of fun alternative history.
Here’s my sick little number:
Bone China
http://helveticasindiehorrorstories.blogspot.com/2012/05/bone-china.html
Thanks for the challenges, Chuck. I haven’t written this much in months!
@David Grigg. I tried to leave a response on your site, but it refused to believe my email address. “Made me laugh. Cost them dearly indeed. Nicely done and glorious thinking.”
Deep breath. I hope you don’t find this silly, but I was doing a post including my favourite writing blogs and I couldn’t not put you in. Thanks for keeping it up. It’s my first stop on the blog tour each day.
I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Post is here, if you are interested. http://imeldaevans.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/id-like-to-thank-the-academy/
How could I resist my state’s flower?
http://www.ellenmgregg.com/2012/05/timeless-lilac.html
http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2012/05/terrible-minds-challenge-smoke.html
Thought I’d a write a second story, since “Flint Smoke” was my first choice, though “Bone China” won out.
Flint Smoke
http://helveticasindiehorrorstories.blogspot.com/2012/05/flint-smoke.html
Hey all!
Here’s my first stab at one of the flash fiction challenges. I’ve been a fan of the site for a while now, and decided I should get in on the action.
(Also, can somebody tell me how I can set up a profile picture so that my fresh mug accompanies my posts? Thanks).
http://www.amschultz.com/4/post/2012/05/burnt-tile-flash-fiction-challenge-41-from-terriblemindscom.html (Burnt Tile)
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Here’s mine for Fuchsia Kiss. It’s a little Noir-Style Detective thing.
http://billthescribe.blogspot.com/2012/05/chuck-wendigs-flash-fiction-challenge.html
Saddle up. Flint Smoke takes us back to the Old West.
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2012/05/21/flash-fiction-flint-smoke/
Flint. Smoke.
http://wp.me/p20rDH-1e
Long term lurker, brought out of the lurking by the color challenge! Flint Smoke it is.
This is actually my first stab at short story writing, so here goes nothing.
“Flamingo Dream”
http://canwedothatagain.blogspot.com/2012/05/flamingo-dream.html
Here’s my go at Flamingo Dream:
http://authorsarahohara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge.html
Ok, I’m going with:
“Timeless Lilac”
http://www.jeffxilon.com/flash-fiction-the-paint-color-title-scheme/
Too many possibilities…but here is my offering: http://lesannberry.com/2012/05/flash-fiction-flamingo-dream.html
[…] Wendig at Terrible Minds is responsible once again. The prompt this time was paint colour names, I chose Burnt Tile. It wrote itself, no idea where this story came from except my Pa did have a […]
It’s far too long, like 1800 words but it’s Burnt Tile, and I like it 🙂
http://alreadynotpublished.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/burnt-tile/
Short and sweet, well… maybe not sweet.
Bone China
http://wp.me/pJy7b-39
Just found this late last night. Compared to everyone else, I’m late to the game, so I skimmed the comments and tried to pick a color that no one else had claimed.
Here’s “Grasshopper Wing”: http://rcanepa.net/2012/05/grasshopper-wing/
Look forward to reading your stories tomorrow. 🙂
I chose (somewhat at random) Flamingo Dream!
I’m not entirely sure what this is, but I think it knows what it wants to be. You know, once I’ve had a chance to re-read it, think it over, tear it apart, build it up, tear it apart again…
Anyway, please enjoy: http://www.candicerobinson.ca/2012/05/24/flamingo-dream/
Couldn’t resist doing another one. Besides, I wanted to have an entry for the FridayFlash group.
It’s another one called “Bone China”, and here it is:
http://narratorium.com/2012/05/25/bone-china/
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A hastily written shorty; ‘Grasshopper Wings’ http://ilonatherose.wordpress.com/grasshopper-wings/
Almost skipped again, it’s getting to that time of the semester, but I can’t NOT write (university essays do not count) – and this gives me an uncompromising deadline to get something done by.
My entry into the challenge. http://geekintellectualist.tumblr.com/post/23728783901/flash-fiction-challenge-grasshopper-wings
Actually got it done. Feel good but also scared. Oh well. I’ll just go to sleep before I decide to take it back down in blind panic.
I wrote on Grasshopper Wing as well but I’m not posting yet. It doesn’t have the right flow and feel yet. I have enjoyed everyone’s stories!
My daughter thinks my story is about a grasshopper who hops from Houston to New York back to Houston again looking for the perfect owner. Shh–don’t tell her the truth! It’s a sci-fi western!
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Ok, here’s my first entry here:
http://grassteeth.blogspot.com/2012/05/song-to-mend-grasshopper-wing.html
A Song to Mend a Grasshopper Wing
I picked several colours, since I decided to use a type of writer as a character – a writer that uses paint and markers for his work. Or, in this case, hers.
http://www.ravensview.ca/ravens/2012/05/the-paint-colour-title-scheme.html
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