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.
Nancy says:
brilliant…..
March 8, 2013 — 9:37 AM
Anthony Elmore says:
“The spur glows!”
I like this. Has a meter like The Teardrop Explodes.
March 8, 2013 — 9:54 AM
Paul D. says:
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 — 10:07 AM
ruroremy says:
“A fraud calls the assistance before our afternoon haircut.”
Well, this ought to be good.
March 8, 2013 — 10:11 AM
ruroremy says:
“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
Beau Hall says:
“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 — 10:13 AM
CBame13 says:
The edge exists opposite a lord.
Could be interesting. I will be taking a highly liberal interpretation of this one
March 8, 2013 — 10:30 AM
crow365 says:
“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 — 10:36 AM
terribleminds says:
That’s a helluva sentence.
— c.
March 8, 2013 — 10:43 AM
crow365 says:
That it is. We’ll see what it yields when I start writing tomorrow or Sunday.
March 8, 2013 — 6:53 PM
crow365 says:
I present “A Truth”: http://nickegelhoff.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-random-sentence/
March 10, 2013 — 3:09 PM
danielrdavis says:
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 11, 2013 — 8:37 AM
anninyn says:
“The wrecked creature yields to the vendor”
This might be interesting.
March 8, 2013 — 10:54 AM
Shelly Tennyson Taylor says:
“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 — 10:55 AM
Mieke Zamora-Mackay says:
I think your post made the site wonky. When I click after the first sentence, an error comes up. LOL!
March 8, 2013 — 11:08 AM
Mieke Zamora-Mackay says:
Ooops. It’s working again.
March 8, 2013 — 11:09 AM
danielrdavis says:
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 — 11:17 AM
danielrdavis says:
Well, a tiny edit. 775 now.
March 8, 2013 — 11:32 AM
Johann Thorsson says:
So .. here we go.
“A tailored stranger despairs behind the expecting unseen.”
I sense some weird fiction coming up.
March 8, 2013 — 11:30 AM
louisesor says:
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 — 11:57 AM
terribleminds says:
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 — 12:57 PM
Amy says:
“A naughty employee swallows.”
I mean, that one kinda writes itself.
March 8, 2013 — 1:36 PM
danielrdavis says:
HAHAHA!!! Nice!
March 8, 2013 — 1:41 PM
danielrdavis says:
Hey Chuck, have you ever used this one for one of the challenges? An old chestnut.
http://www.theyfightcrime.org/
March 8, 2013 — 1:43 PM
terribleminds says:
Oh man, I totally forgot that one.
*makes a note*
March 8, 2013 — 2:07 PM
AM Gray says:
wow! that site is neat!
March 8, 2013 — 10:07 PM
jreinmiller says:
Hah! That site is crazy. I sense something terrible in our future… but awesome.
March 9, 2013 — 4:12 PM
ontheedgeofinfinity says:
The ghastly epic bounces without the carpet.
Gave me an idea for a murder mystery…
March 8, 2013 — 2:10 PM
Echo says:
“Outside the shade plays the guaranteed wood.”
I shall return… with something…
March 8, 2013 — 6:13 PM
Icarus Mortis says:
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 8, 2013 — 7:42 PM
Icarus Mortis says:
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 15, 2013 — 6:00 AM
AM Gray says:
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 8, 2013 — 10:03 PM
AM Gray says:
Done… http://amgray.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/the-disappointing-crystal.html
The disappointing crystal. 778 words
March 11, 2013 — 2:36 AM
danielrdavis says:
A somewhat different and cool setting. And an interesting interpretation of the sentence. Awesome.
March 11, 2013 — 2:09 PM
onethemis says:
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 — 1:10 PM
AM Gray says:
Illegal characters? What does that mean? I will see if I can sort it out. Thanks for reading.
March 15, 2013 — 7:31 PM
onethemis says:
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 8, 2013 — 10:39 PM
onethemis says:
Alright! Here is ‘The Edge’. Thanks!
http://onethemis.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/the-edge/
March 14, 2013 — 10:04 PM
Bookewyrme says:
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 — 12:15 AM
Lester Nieves says:
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 — 1:19 AM
Lester Nieves says:
The resulting story was “The Joke” and it’s about 800 words.
http://lonieves.wordpress.com/fiction-insanity/the-joke/
March 9, 2013 — 3:34 AM
cbroad90 says:
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 — 3:44 AM
Joe Petty says:
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.
March 9, 2013 — 6:08 AM
blackwolfpenmonkey says:
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 — 6:33 AM
Jim Franklin says:
‘The researcher burns the rabid musician.’ – Seems fairly self-explanatory, so let’s hope I have time to write it.
March 9, 2013 — 10:19 AM
Jim Franklin says:
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 13, 2013 — 8:48 AM
jreinmiller says:
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 9, 2013 — 4:09 PM
jreinmiller says:
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 10, 2013 — 6:04 PM
zaiure says:
I got some absolute gems, but I think I’m going to use this one for its simplicity – “The token bobs.”
March 9, 2013 — 7:05 PM
Jeff Xilon says:
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 — 12:52 AM
Ryan A says:
“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 — 4:03 AM
Trine Schmidt says:
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 — 5:29 AM
Trine Schmidt says:
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 — 11:40 AM
Cassandra Benedicte Rabbich says:
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 — 10:19 AM
Cassandra Benedicte Rabbich says:
I went with The snack thinks? Here is my story:
http://notashopgirl.blogspot.dk/2013/03/fiction-uhm-sunday.html
March 10, 2013 — 12:19 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
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 — 11:45 AM
jreinmiller says:
Cool concept and well executed.
March 10, 2013 — 6:43 PM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
many thanks!
March 10, 2013 — 6:58 PM
Cassandra Benedicte Rabbich says:
Really cool idea!
March 11, 2013 — 5:24 AM
S.W. Sondheimer says:
thank you!
March 11, 2013 — 7:48 AM
victoryrock says:
The pointer hunts our winter.
Starting it now…
March 10, 2013 — 4:08 PM
victoryrock says:
http://somatime.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/a-magicians-winter/
And officially pops my flash fiction cherry.
March 13, 2013 — 3:16 PM
Jack Vanish says:
‘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).
March 11, 2013 — 7:34 AM
Josh Loomis says:
“This Child Farms.”
http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/2013/03/11/flash-fiction-the-farmers-child/
March 11, 2013 — 10:06 AM
chelsearthompson says:
Giving “An estate condemns the verse” a try.
March 11, 2013 — 2:07 PM
CBame13 says:
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 — 3:47 PM
Jack Vanish says:
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/
March 11, 2013 — 5:55 PM
Anthony Elmore says:
“The spurs glow!”
http://www.barelyok.com/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-sentence.html
March 11, 2013 — 6:25 PM
Jeph (@thatjeph) says:
“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 11, 2013 — 10:42 PM
fakedtales says:
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.
March 12, 2013 — 11:44 AM