{"id":14028,"date":"2012-05-18T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=14028"},"modified":"2012-05-18T07:22:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:22:40","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-paint-color-title-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/05\/18\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-paint-color-title-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Paint Color Title Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terribleminds\/4732269725\/in\/set-72157601635209109\/lightbox\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1214\/4732269725_8b04e4e999_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/05\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-over-the-top-pulp-insanity\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/05\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-over-the-top-pulp-insanity\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Over The Top Pulp Fiction Insanity<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love shopping for paint because the paint colors are so bizarrely and uniquely named.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought, hey, a challenge based on some of those colors would be kinda rad.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the deal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to list ten paint colors. Choose one. This chosen paint color forms the title to your story.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus challenge: try to make <em>color<\/em> a big part of the story. In imagery, plot, character, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Here, then, are the colors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Grasshopper Wing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bone China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeless Lilac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pageant Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burnt Tile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuchsia Kiss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flamingo Dream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glorious Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mermaid Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flint Smoke<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You, as usual, have one thousand words and one week to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Due by Friday, the 25th, at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Post at your blog. Link here. Now go color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love shopping for paint because the paint colors are so bizarrely and uniquely named. And I thought, hey, a challenge based on some of those colors would be kinda rad. So, here&#8217;s the deal. I&#8217;m going to list ten paint colors. Choose one. This chosen paint color forms the title to your story.<\/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-14028","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-3Eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028","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=14028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14030,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions\/14030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}