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Flash Fiction Challenge: Yes I Know It’s Sunday Not Friday Shut Up

(Sorry folks — was without Internet for a couple-few days. We’re back on now, though.)

I’ll make this challenge easy, by which I mean, easy for me. Difficult for you.

I want you to write a story in the form of social media.

Meaning, I want your 1000 words to take the form of:

Twitter, Facebook, a blog post, Instagram, something, anything online.

Meaning, you will tell a fictional story using social media as the framing. You will post this at your blog or other online space, formatted accordingly — it’ll be due by next Friday, 2/5 at noon EST. Any genre will do. Be sure to link back here so we can all see what you wrote.

Now go do.

[EDIT: due to some confusion over the challenge, let me add a bit to clarify — what I mean is, you know how an epistolary work is fiction in the form of a letter to someone or some other document? Assume this to be a digital social media epistolary form. Your story should be written as if it takes place on social media — though, even e-mail could work. It is a fictional construct, a narrative that assumes the form of something other than straight prose. ]

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62 responses to “Flash Fiction Challenge: Yes I Know It’s Sunday Not Friday Shut Up”

  1. I’m sorry, I’m confused. You want 1000 words told as in a character is tweeting or blogging or instagramming or tumblring? Because just posting those 1K on a blog is …all of the challenges? So this is a fictional tale told through those things so I could make fake tweets on my blog from characters? Do I get to use back and forth? Sorry, just trying to make sense of it.

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    • I’m not asking that you actually tweet a story (though that would also be an option) — but rather, write a story as if it takes place on Twitter or through the format of Twitter. Or any other social media: blog, FB, Tumblr, even email.

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  2. Like Mariah, I’m a bit confused. I love the idea, but when we end up posting it you want it to look like some form of social media, correct? Sounds like a fun challenge, not sure how I’ll format that.

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      • So happy you enjoyed it. Some of it was true … like the NYE party I went to and the Girl’s Day out…. while the rest of it was all made up. The sick old lady in unit 33 was true… but she’s not passed on – yet.

        People just keep to themselves so much in unit/townhouse complexes that sometimes you have to wonder, right? 😀

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  15. I tried and never finished something like this 5 years ago. The story of a thief and his crew discovering a great adversary.

    It’s kind of weird reading old writing. *tries to burn down internet*

    Hopefully I can give it a better ending now than I could 5 years ago. The Twitter handle is @BaronIsaac if anyone wants to follow along.

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  16. Oh i going to try this out.
    it is not only a good exercise but someone has published a book by doing this. Azraels stop. it was made using twitter, each tweet was its own story set in a lovely inn, which is frequented by death himself.

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  18. Ever have one of those days when your character does all the talking? (Come on, admit it.) Anyway, my take on the challenge is a blog interview with one of my characters: A Blog Interview With Arekan Mor’a’stan. Here Arekan waxes on the value of social media and my marketing skills as an author.

    http://bethturnage.com/?p=515

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