{"id":14978,"date":"2012-08-03T07:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=14978"},"modified":"2012-08-03T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:10:11","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-opening-line-part-one-of-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/08\/03\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-opening-line-part-one-of-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: “The Opening Line, Part One Of Two”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: “Antag\/Protag<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a two-part challenge.<\/p>\n

First part of the challenge is a part we’ve done here before: opening lines<\/em>. I want you to write the opening sentence to a story. That’s it. Just the opening sentence. Can be suggestive of any genre. Should be no more than 50 words (and even that’s pretty long — you’re best keeping it roughly at “tweet” length).<\/p>\n

A good opening line is punchy. It may have a question implicit — or, at least, is itself a hook that will snare the reader by the neck and drag them into the tale whether he likes it or not.<\/p>\n

Write the opening line.<\/p>\n

Post it below.<\/p>\n

You get one entry.<\/p>\n

Your due date is — note this change — Thursday <\/em>at noon EST (8\/9).<\/p>\n

Because then by Friday I will have picked my three favorite opening lines.<\/p>\n

And each of those three people will get an early e-copy of BAIT DOG<\/strong>, the Atlanta Burns sequel. Three formats available: PDF, ePub, and MOBI. Oh, but we ain’t done yet, my little squidlings.<\/p>\n

Then<\/em>, your next challenge will be to write a story using one of those three opening lines as, well, the opening line to a piece of 1000-word flash fiction. More details next week.<\/p>\n

Good?<\/p>\n

Let’s read some opening lines, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: “Antag\/Protag.” This is a two-part challenge. First part of the challenge is a part we’ve done here before: opening lines. I want you to write the opening sentence to a story. That’s it. Just the opening sentence. Can be suggestive of any genre. Should be no more than 50 words (and even […]<\/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":[71,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-14978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","8":"tag-fridayflash","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3TA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978","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=14978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14982,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14978\/revisions\/14982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}