{"id":10172,"date":"2011-08-05T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:35:03","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-that-poor-poor-protagonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/08\/05\/flash-fiction-challenge-that-poor-poor-protagonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: That Poor, Poor Protagonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terribleminds\/3660055888\/in\/set-72157602133622235\/lightbox\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3638\/3660055888_22dcaf69d3_z.jpg?resize=640%2C422\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Okay, last week&#8217;s challenge &#8212; &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/29\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-flea-market\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/29\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-flea-market\/\">The Flea Market<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; &#8212; requires you crazy kids to get over there and vote for your favorite starting today, and ending tomorrow (Saturday, we&#8217;ll say noon EST). Easy enough to pick your favorite: in the comments, just write the author&#8217;s name and the story name. Participation in the challenge is not required for voting &#8212; voting is open to anybody. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you may have seen this week, I offered up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/08\/02\/25-ways-to-fuck-with-your-characters\/\">25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I want you to do exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>Your task is to write a flash fiction piece wherein the protagonist of that piece is subject to some manner or method of torment, trial, and torture. It&#8217;s your job to put that character through the wringer, whether that be physical, emotional, spiritual, moral, or some combination of the bunch. I want you to fuck with and fuck up that protagonist. I want to care deeply about that character and feel every sting and barb.<\/p>\n<p>Limit: 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>So, get in there, and do your worst.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got one week. Challenge ends Friday, August 12th, at noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>This time, I&#8217;ll pick one <em>random<\/em> winner from the entrants. That entrant will get all three of my e-books in PDF format. Maybe that excites you. Maybe it elicits throw-up noises. Either way: them&#8217;s the deals.<\/p>\n<p>You know the drill. Post the fiction at your blog. Link back here. Point us to your story in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun by making sure your protagonist does not.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and torment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen this week, I offered up 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters. And now, I want you to do exactly that. Your task is to write a flash fiction piece wherein the protagonist of that piece is subject to some manner or method of torment, trial, and torture. So, get in there, and do your worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-10172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10179,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}