Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Random Sentence
Last week’s challenge: “Super-Ultra-Mega Game of Aspects.”
I’m kind of in love with this random sentence generator.
You are going to love it too.
I SAID YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT TOO
*points crossbow at your face*
Ahem.
Seriously, it creates a kind of… insane poetry.
So —
Go click the link to the random sentence generator.
Get a random sentence.
It’s okay if you have to reclick a few times.
Let’s say, upwards of ten reclicks.
Choose one of those ten sentences.
And use that sentence in a piece of flash fiction up to 1000 words long. See? Super easy.
Let us know what your sentence is before you write because, hey, it’s fun.
You’ve got one week, as usual. Finish your tale by Friday, March 15th, at noon EST. Publish at your online space and link back here so we can all check it out. Dig? Dug.
Get writing, word-nerds.
March 8, 2013 @ 9:37 AM
brilliant…..
March 8, 2013 @ 9:54 AM
“The spur glows!”
I like this. Has a meter like The Teardrop Explodes.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:07 AM
Click #3: An adventurous yeti pulses above a faucet.
Also…there’s no way you can stop at 10 clicks…this thing is awesome.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:11 AM
“A fraud calls the assistance before our afternoon haircut.”
Well, this ought to be good.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:13 AM
“A fraud calls the assistance before our afternoon haircut.”
This ought to be good.
I should use this thing more often!
March 8, 2013 @ 10:13 AM
“The dummy disposes of the fighter.”
I’ve got a good feeling about this one – something similar to “it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again”.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:30 AM
The edge exists opposite a lord.
Could be interesting. I will be taking a highly liberal interpretation of this one
March 8, 2013 @ 10:36 AM
“A truth runs underneath an insult.”
I think I had to click through maybe a dozen nonsensical sentences before I got to that one. Let’s see what it yields.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:43 AM
That’s a helluva sentence.
— c.
March 8, 2013 @ 6:53 PM
That it is. We’ll see what it yields when I start writing tomorrow or Sunday.
March 10, 2013 @ 3:09 PM
I present “A Truth”: http://nickegelhoff.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-random-sentence/
March 11, 2013 @ 8:37 AM
Cool piece. I’ve known some asshats like Dave. The guys that feel authority gives them power to be dicks to their workers. The wife’s dealing with one now.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:54 AM
“The wrecked creature yields to the vendor”
This might be interesting.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:55 AM
“The Brain Crashes.” — This is how mine felt after clicking so many times!
I also have “The Pardon Mends.” & “Each Hand Triumphs within the miracle.”
Now to pick which one I want to use!
March 8, 2013 @ 11:08 AM
I think your post made the site wonky. When I click after the first sentence, an error comes up. LOL!
March 8, 2013 @ 11:09 AM
Ooops. It’s working again.
Another Chuck Wendig Challenge | Daniel R. Davis, Writer
March 8, 2013 @ 11:16 AM
[…] Chuck Wendig challenge. This one was a little simpler, though I cheated just a little. Choose Your Random Sentence No editing on this one because I needed to get back to work on other things. Still, it came out fun […]
March 8, 2013 @ 11:17 AM
Just a quick write this time. Love doing these, but I needed to get back to my novel. Still, I couldn’t pass it up. I used more than one crazy sentence, and actually didn’t go for the most obvious idea of the group. I used:
A compatible surplus eggs the kernel.
A fiddle pauses behind the blood.
The premise explodes?
The wizard persists!
How can a boredom abort?
It’s 768 words called, A Game of Cat and Mouse. Enjoy.
http://www.danielrdavis.com/2013/03/08/another-chuck-wendig-challenge/
March 8, 2013 @ 11:32 AM
Well, a tiny edit. 775 now.
March 8, 2013 @ 11:30 AM
So .. here we go.
“A tailored stranger despairs behind the expecting unseen.”
I sense some weird fiction coming up.
March 8, 2013 @ 11:57 AM
Question. If we include the random sentence generated, in our story, is it copyrighted by the random sentence generator? I’m wondering what our rights are if we want to publish the piece.
March 8, 2013 @ 12:57 PM
Louise —
I don’t see how it would be. Given that it’s a random, unpredicted sentence. Otherwise they’d “own” a surprising variety of sentences. 🙂
— c.
March 8, 2013 @ 1:36 PM
“A naughty employee swallows.”
I mean, that one kinda writes itself.
March 8, 2013 @ 1:41 PM
HAHAHA!!! Nice!
March 8, 2013 @ 1:43 PM
Hey Chuck, have you ever used this one for one of the challenges? An old chestnut.
http://www.theyfightcrime.org/
March 8, 2013 @ 2:07 PM
Oh man, I totally forgot that one.
*makes a note*
March 8, 2013 @ 10:07 PM
wow! that site is neat!
March 9, 2013 @ 4:12 PM
Hah! That site is crazy. I sense something terrible in our future… but awesome.
March 8, 2013 @ 2:10 PM
The ghastly epic bounces without the carpet.
Gave me an idea for a murder mystery…
March 8, 2013 @ 6:13 PM
“Outside the shade plays the guaranteed wood.”
I shall return… with something…
March 8, 2013 @ 7:42 PM
Fantastic! But, urgh, undecided. One of these two:
“Can the irony offend past your fundamentalist author?”
“My havoc fails underneath the seeking quibble.”
Both seem really good, yet kind of creepy-crazy. Doubtless I’ll use both at some point.
March 15, 2013 @ 6:00 AM
I eventually decided on the latter. (Shamelessly thought that easier; stoplookingatme, whatmoredyawant?) Yet I panned my original; it just didn’t work. Much happier with the rethink.
I present ‘A Broken Scalpel’, 422 words of fantasy: http://blog.icarusmortis.co.uk/2013/03/15/a-broken-scalpel/
March 8, 2013 @ 10:03 PM
I did get:
“The beard downs a lavatory.”
It seems eerily appropriate for you, Chuck… lmao but I think I will go with:
“The disappointing crystal approaches an empties concert.”
What are crystals? Or empties?
At a concert?
To what? Fill themselves? Hmmm…
March 11, 2013 @ 2:36 AM
Done… http://amgray.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/the-disappointing-crystal.html
The disappointing crystal. 778 words
March 11, 2013 @ 2:09 PM
A somewhat different and cool setting. And an interesting interpretation of the sentence. Awesome.
March 15, 2013 @ 1:10 PM
Solid piece using the line to its fullest, forming the story around it instead of fitting it in somewhere. I like it. (i tried to post on your blog but it said I was using illegal characters, to which I say feh all my characters are legal!)
March 15, 2013 @ 7:31 PM
Illegal characters? What does that mean? I will see if I can sort it out. Thanks for reading.
March 8, 2013 @ 10:39 PM
Mine got good between 10 and 15 but I went to 20 anyway! I kind of liked ‘A planetary satire celebrates a quota.’ but I felt like it would be too Hitchhiker-y. Passing ‘The comedy installs a goldfish.’ and ‘Why can’t a fantasy roll?’ I picked ‘The doomed edge functions as whatever calm.’ LOL that site is too good!
March 14, 2013 @ 10:04 PM
Alright! Here is ‘The Edge’. Thanks!
http://onethemis.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/the-edge/
March 9, 2013 @ 12:15 AM
This captured my imagination, so I’m playing again. 🙂
I got “The Hairy mechanism fashions a porter” at first, which sounded interesting. But I kept clicking a few more times and got “Can the damaged queen pace?” and now I’ve got this whole chess-story going with living chess pieces. Having a lot of fun with it!
March 9, 2013 @ 1:19 AM
I didn’t have a chance to finish mine last week, but I’ll do this one.
At the 5th click, I got: “Can the calm glance bugger the funeral?”
…
March 9, 2013 @ 3:34 AM
The resulting story was “The Joke” and it’s about 800 words.
http://lonieves.wordpress.com/fiction-insanity/the-joke/
March 9, 2013 @ 3:44 AM
Being a library assistant I couldn’t resist:
“Why does the librarian coin an arithmetic belt?”
Looking forward to getting back on the Flash Fiction horse!
March 9, 2013 @ 6:08 AM
New to this flash thingie… looking forward to seeing what I can come up with for the 6th clicked button and this winner. Underneath its cheap battery swings a central stroke.
A first post | bastard genres
March 9, 2013 @ 6:20 AM
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March 9, 2013 @ 6:33 AM
got ten, rolled a d10 and got…dun dun dun
How does the terrifying syndicate list the contradictory daughter?
let’s see where we go
March 9, 2013 @ 10:19 AM
‘The researcher burns the rabid musician.’ – Seems fairly self-explanatory, so let’s hope I have time to write it.
March 13, 2013 @ 8:48 AM
Well here it is, and there’s not a burnt rabid musician in sight. Hope you like it.
This is… “Inspiration”
http://writewayround.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/flash-fiction-inspiration/
March 9, 2013 @ 4:09 PM
Well that was interesting. I got a few I like so I may use more than one in this endeavor, but I’m going with: “Around the eyesight smokes the intended viewer.”
March 10, 2013 @ 6:04 PM
Happy with how it came out. Managed to get in four random sentences without making them poke out too horribly I think.
http://www.jqpdx.com/2013/03/10/escape/
March 9, 2013 @ 7:05 PM
I got some absolute gems, but I think I’m going to use this one for its simplicity – “The token bobs.”
March 10, 2013 @ 12:52 AM
Ok. I’m not sure exactly which I’m going to use, but it’s going to be one of these three:
Does the initiate end the reasoning software?
When can our sensitive mirror volunteer the tied wombat?
My misguided trap maximizes the cuckoo over the screaming fruit.
March 10, 2013 @ 4:03 AM
“An overcome toad pants within the glue.”
I’ve already started in on this one… and it’s a little dark and makes me uncomfortable to write it. Which is my favorite thing to happen to me when i write.
March 10, 2013 @ 5:29 AM
I stuck with the rules and clicked ten times. Got a lot of total nonsense about syntax and stuff that didn’t spark anything, Number 8 was the best: “The sinister rectangle balls the gentle link.”
Working on it as we speak.
March 10, 2013 @ 11:40 AM
Had a lot of fun writing this. I maxed out the word allowance. Sticking to a 1000 words is not easy.
So “The sinister rectangle balls the gentle link.” became this:
http://www.trinetoftschmidt.com/2013/03/flash-fiction-1-0/
March 10, 2013 @ 10:19 AM
Oh god I got some random things in there.
I am torn between:
The snack thinks?
A grandmother positions the scope
and
The bust reads against the young passenger
March 10, 2013 @ 12:19 PM
I went with The snack thinks? Here is my story:
http://notashopgirl.blogspot.dk/2013/03/fiction-uhm-sunday.html
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March 10, 2013 @ 11:21 AM
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March 10, 2013 @ 11:35 AM
[…] this is my first attempt at flash fiction. It was prompted by Chuck Wendig here, and a sentence generator linked in his post. Among the ten sentences I recieved I chose this: […]
March 10, 2013 @ 11:45 AM
Right then. “Every contest stamps inside the Yeti.”
I present: The Amazing Chase
http://swsondheimer.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/zombie-sunday-chasing-the-dead/
March 10, 2013 @ 6:43 PM
Cool concept and well executed.
March 10, 2013 @ 6:58 PM
many thanks!
March 11, 2013 @ 5:24 AM
Really cool idea!
March 11, 2013 @ 7:48 AM
thank you!
Flash Fiction Challenge: “Choose Your Random Sentence” | Half-Mad Rantings with Nick Egelhoff
March 10, 2013 @ 3:00 PM
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March 10, 2013 @ 4:08 PM
The pointer hunts our winter.
Starting it now…
March 13, 2013 @ 3:16 PM
http://somatime.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/a-magicians-winter/
And officially pops my flash fiction cherry.
March 11, 2013 @ 7:34 AM
‘The Waste Vanishes?’
I will finish this one and I will also put up the one that I didn’t finish last week because of ‘work’ (distinct from Work).
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March 11, 2013 @ 10:06 AM
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March 11, 2013 @ 10:06 AM
“This Child Farms.”
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/03/11/flash-fiction-the-farmers-child/
March 11, 2013 @ 2:07 PM
Giving “An estate condemns the verse” a try.
March 11, 2013 @ 3:47 PM
http://blankslatemusings.blogspot.com/2013/03/chuck-wendigs-flash-fiction-challenge.html
Hopefully I don’t embarass myself too bad with this one.
March 11, 2013 @ 5:55 PM
I don’t know how much this is fiction. Sometimes you just need to write these things. It’s been one of those days.
http://flyknifecomics.com/flash-fiction-3/
Terribleminds Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Sentence | My Blog
March 11, 2013 @ 6:23 PM
[…] this week’s TerribleMinds.com Flash Fiction Challenge, we chose a random sentence. “The spurs glow,” snagged my eye. Not much time to talk, […]
March 11, 2013 @ 6:25 PM
“The spurs glow!”
http://www.barelyok.com/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-sentence.html
March 11, 2013 @ 10:42 PM
“The highest incompetence originates with the grave disorder.”
Clickjoy webtoy, thanks for that! Really enjoyed writing this piece. Something about the narrative language in this one amused me.
http://thatjeph.tumblr.com/post/45160647245/flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-random-sentence
March 12, 2013 @ 11:44 AM
A litter jumps within the vet.
A clever handler listens next to the accountant.
The cookie flies within the complex
The beast experiments beside the concrete.
These are mine, not sure which one/a I’ll use yet.