{"id":11729,"date":"2011-11-18T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T05:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2011-11-18T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T11:24:14","slug":"11729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/11\/18\/11729\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: &#8220;Frog Powder Seagull Tower Scissors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here we are again.<\/p>\n<p>It is time, my little scrunchies, to conjure for the world another dab, another dollop, of some flash fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, you have five words to play with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Frog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Powder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seagull<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scissors.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You need to choose only one of those five words.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right. Only one.<\/p>\n<p>That one word must feature prominently in your fiction, whether directly or as a clear and forthright inspiration. You do not have 1,000 words but rather, you have 100. A hundred words, no more. That way, nobody will be taken away from NaNoWriMo if they&#8217;re participating for more than a mere handful of words.<\/p>\n<p>Any genre will do.<\/p>\n<p>Post your entries into the comment section below.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got till Friday, <em>Black Friday<\/em>, to turn in your entries. By noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to pick my favorite out of the bunch. That person will get both <strong>SHOTGUN GRAVY <\/strong>and <strong>IRREGULAR CREATURES<\/strong> as e-books. I&#8217;ll pick the winner sometime that following weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Get to writing, fictioneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to choose only one of those five words. Yes, that&#8217;s right. Only one. That one word must feature prominently in your fiction, whether directly or as a clear and forthright inspiration. You do not have 1,000 words but rather, you have 100. A hundred words, no more.<\/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-11729","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\/sv7MR-11729","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","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=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}