{"id":13065,"date":"2012-03-02T05:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=13065"},"modified":"2012-03-02T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:56:40","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-song-shuffle-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/03\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-song-shuffle-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Song Shuffle, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge — “Tell a story in five sentences<\/a><\/strong><\/span>” — is all tied up and cinched with a bow. Those looking for a winner to that challenge, keep your eyes peeled on that blog post. I’ll announce at some point today. It’s a toughie, as usual, because, fuckadang, so many good options.<\/em><\/p>\n

I loved this challenge so much, I’m bringing it back a second time.<\/p>\n

As they say, second verse, same as the first.<\/p>\n

Here we go:<\/p>\n

Go to Your Favorite Music Player. Dig out your digital music collection.<\/p>\n

Maybe this is iTunes or Spotify, or use Pandora if you\u2019d rather go that way.<\/p>\n

Hit SHUFFLE, then \u201cPlay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: pull up a random song.<\/p>\n

The title to this song is the title to your story.<\/p>\n

Use the song for inspiration, too, if you feel so inclined.<\/p>\n

Word count is the full-bore double-barrel 1000 words, as usual.<\/p>\n

You’ve got a week. Get your stories in by noon EST, March 9th. Just to be a little bit of a dick, I’m going to close the comments after that point — I don’t set a deadline for gits and shiggles, after all.<\/p>\n

Post at your blog. Link back. You know the drill.<\/p>\n

Now queue up some tunes and get thee to some wordsmithy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge — “Tell a story in five sentences” — is all tied up and cinched with a bow. Those looking for a winner to that challenge, keep your eyes peeled on that blog post. I’ll announce at some point today. It’s a toughie, as usual, because, fuckadang, so many good options.<\/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-13065","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-3oJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065","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=13065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13068,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13065\/revisions\/13068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}