It is the time of car chases.
Today, Mad Max.
A few weeks ago: the recent installment of the Fast & Furious series.
Car chases are awesome.
So, when I got an email from reader Scott Lyerly who said, “Hey, you should do a whole flash fiction challenge based around car chases,” well, dang, I thought he had the right idea.
That, then, is your mission.
You have 2000 words to write a piece of fiction that comprises a car chase. Doesn’t matter the genre or how you frame it — but it must feature and in fact showcase a car chase.
Post that fiction to your blog or other online space. Drop a link here so we can see it.
Your story? Due by next Friday, the 22nd of May, noon EST.
Start your engines.
Ready?
Set?
GO.
69 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: The Car Chase”
Ooooo goodie. This weekend I shall feast upon Bulliet, Ronin, Bad Boys 2, and anything else where one car should follow another car at more than 30mph.
I don’t have a blog space to post, but I will enjoy reading the work of the others 🙂
It is very easy to create one. Just go to WordPress.com, and follow the instructions. It took me all of ten minutes. (Which means anyone, literally ANYONE, can manage it)
Hey, thanks a lot, elctrcrngr! I’ll give it a shot!
Or you can go to Blogger.. they’re free and you can really tweak it there too. I’ve been with them for years and it’s great.
Oh man. I’ve been wanting to figure out how to write a good car chase. So this should be fun.
an idea…. now to try and grow it into a story …
http://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/drive.html
Enjoy.
I like this. I think car chases in screen plays must be more difficult to write than they seem at first glance, as many of them are, well, bleh. While others(the above mentioned Bullit is a good example) become legendary icons that are remembered and talked about for decades.
OK, finished. Short and sweet, about 1000 words
https://elctrcrngr.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/the-pursuit/
https://thedarkword.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/writers-asylum-pt-3-chase/
I love this idea, and while it’s a fun concept it’s a real challenge for some people to write an action sequence. This will help a lot of us, me included, and I can’t wait to write it…I’d already be on it if it weren’t for this stoopid office work
I wrote a good one, but I think I’m gonna save it and submit it rather than publish it here…
Amphibious vehicles incoming. Boat-car chasing a hovercraft.
Dune speeder chase in the great salt flats. Rev’ em up!
Let us not forget that SLOW chases can be good too. I always liked Duel.
I may like slow, intense thriller chases but it turns out writing one is really, really hard. So, this isn’t that.
http://www.bradpeirson.com/flash-fiction-schools-out/
Here goes mine…
‘Smithereens’
https://ryanjamesblack.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/smithereens/
Hilarious! Loved it.
So fun! I enjoyed this one, especially your cool and unique metaphors:)
That was really fun and very clever.
Thanks guys, glad you liked it
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve EVER written, but y’know.
http://auroradimitre.tumblr.com/post/119049796416/the-car-chase-flash-fiction-challenge-2000-wds
That’s intriguing…though there are some issues with physics (ramming from behind doesn’t send you flying forward…this guy should have some serious whiplash, not a broken rib!).
Oops! I’m glad it was at least interesting, though.
I went for a sci-fi version. Here goes:
http://strangeandcuriousthings.blogspot.fi/2015/05/terribleminds-challenge-car-chase.html
Left a comment on your blog — I really enjoyed this one!
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it. Kind of makes me feel better about spending Friday night at my computer, typing away. I’m having this conversation a lot nowadays:
Friend: “So, what did you do last night? A date? the new Avengers movie? Awesome party?”
Me: “Well… I sat at my computer and wrote a story.”
Friend: “On a Friday night?”
Me: “Yup.”
Friend: ?!??
I’m hoping this is normal (for writers)?
Yeah, it’s pretty normal. Unless you’re the kind of alcoholic writer who parties hard Friday nights and writes about their scattered hangover-memories Saturday afternoon (when they wake up).
I liked the way you handled the car’s dialogue. Clever with just the right degree of snark. Nicely done!
Digging this idea. I will definitely be doing this!
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I am a lazy bum– this is an excerpt from an abandoned novel, not a new piece. If you wish to heap abuse upon me, I will understand–
https://douglasdanieldotcom.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/abandoned-fragment-11-the-chase/
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https://p33d33.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/the-car-chase-a-chuck-wendig-challenge
Writing car chases with inevitable crashes is what I do best. 😀
Strong language, humour, escaping writers, and dead poets.
Ze link, she is broken!
INSURRECTION: A super-soldier, an attempt at assassination, an unhelpful AI, a chase scene and a vault heist: http://hubcityblues.com/2013/06/03/excerpt-insurrection-chapter-1/
I liked the weapons tech in this, very imaginative
Round Dance
A frantic chase over open desert!
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I’m going in the direction of the absurd. Stay tuned for a fast-action car race story featuring Toonces the Driving Cat (late ’80s SNL reference).
I remember Toonces! Looking forward to this!
Here it is: Toonces’ Last Wild Ride
http://mireles-musings.blogspot.com/2015/05/toonces-last-wild-ride.html
This is hilarious. Only one question…what’s NOS?
Nitrous Oxide System. It sets car engines to warp speed.
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I did this. https://evathereseebert.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/flash-fiction-challenge-the-car-chase/
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I tried something a little different, a sort of Walter Mitty glimpse inside a familiar scenario.
Here’s “The Bag Man”: https://pavorisms.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/the-bag-man/
Great voice and style. I always get a kick out of your flash pieces, thanks.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Near future car theft, car chase, and other fun, titled “Making Bad Decisions Quickly.”
Enjoy!
http://fistfulofwits.com/2015/05/18/flash-fiction-making-bad-decisions-quickly/
Okie doke – this one even comes in under word count this time! Rage on!
http://ossua.com/emblogination/wordpress/writing-challenge-week-20a-ragers-terribleminds-edition/
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Car chases are cool.
By the way, I’m so disappointed in Fast&Furious 7. So many stupid moments. Yeah, I understand that is the action movie, but still. Do creators think that we are idiots?!
I can’t ever do things like other people. Here’s my chase scene.
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2015/05/friday-flash-occupational-hazards.html
I’ve got about a four-chapter vehicle chase, so I’m showing just the part with the food truck. A car is really there, too, though.
http://kaykeppler.com/blog/
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“Write what you know,” they say. “Write a car chase story,” Chuck says. Well, when you live in La-La Land, home of the police chase, you have plenty of “local color” to lean on. As always, comments and constructive criticisms are appreciated.
http://pauljwillett.com/2015/05/21/flash-fiction-carjacked/
Oh my, how very short.. but I’d rather hit the deadline and have done a story than decide it wasn’t doable!
http://imagination.cjreader.com/car-chase.html
New mantra: Imperator Furiosa is my spirit animal.
Here is my first go at The Flash Fiction Challenge.
Traction
Some customers just want to be chased.
A simple tire selling, hog wrestling, hot rodding man named Michelle finds out that the customer is always right. Unless her name is Zazzy. She is wrong, “Bad-wrong”.
Constructive criticism and commentary are always appreciated.
http://lissaword.blogspot.com/2015/05/traction.html
http://lissaword.blogspot.com/2015/05/traction.html
I thought this was a fun one.
https://crazyphils.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/chuck-wendig-flash-fiction-challenge-car-chases/
Whew…just made it. Thanks for reading!
https://chaddenmagdalenabasnik.wordpress.com/prose/short-story/johnny-dont-be-a-hero/
And with minutes to spare, here’s mine.
https://swordsoftheancients.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/detroit-dream/
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Ok ,,, hope this works, just started a new blog site
( thanks all for the advice)
Let me know what you think.
http://wp.me/s6e1eO-curves
Wah, I was too late 🙁