{"id":15610,"date":"2012-09-28T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=15610"},"modified":"2012-09-28T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:19:12","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-epic-game-of-aspects-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/09\/28\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-epic-game-of-aspects-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Epic Game Of Aspects Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of people telling me how much they loved the previous Game of Aspects challenges, so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>WE SHALL DO IT AGAIN.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll do it even bigger this time.<\/p>\n<p>But! Before we do, I need your help.<\/p>\n<p>Or, someone&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p>I want to do this game of aspects thing as a website. Like, imagine that there&#8217;s a website that every time you click it, it gives you a new combination of flash fiction story seeds based off these types of lists. Maybe there&#8217;s a front page that lets you customize some aspect &#8212; maybe no front-page. I dunno. Anyone out there savvy enough to talk me through this? You can hit me up in the comments or at my terribleminds-at-gmail-dot-com email address. My thanks in advance, you wonderful humans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, onto the game.<\/p>\n<p>This time, again you can either go do the Random Number Generator at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"RANDOM\" href=\"http:\/\/random.org\">Random.org<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, or you can instead use a d20. Not a d10 this time, word-whippers. A MOTHERFUCKING d20.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s get on with it. You know the drill &#8212; you&#8217;ve got three categories below<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got <strong>Subgenre \/ Conflict \/ Element to Include<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Pick one from each category either randomly or by your own hand (though randomly is the most fun), then write a flash fiction short story no longer than 1000 words. Post at your online space, link back to it in the comments here, and voila. Easy-peasy, George-and-Weezy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, EDIT: Due by Friday, October 5th, noon EST. I won&#8217;t pick favorites until after that weekend is over, as I&#8217;ll be in Loverly Georgia (state, not country), at the Crossroads Writing Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, as I&#8217;m having so much fun with this, I&#8217;ll send my favorite story a prize.<\/p>\n<p>No idea what the prize is. We&#8217;ll just call it a MYSTERY BOX.<\/p>\n<p>On with the lists!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Subgenre<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>1. Men&#8217;s Adventure<\/p>\n<p>2. Dieselpunk<\/p>\n<p>3. Post-Apocalyptic<\/p>\n<p>4. Southern Gothic<\/p>\n<p>5. Comic Fantasy<\/p>\n<p>6. Superhero<\/p>\n<p>7. Hardboiled<\/p>\n<p>8. Wuxia<\/p>\n<p>9. Weird West<\/p>\n<p>10. Wild West<\/p>\n<p>11. Yuri<\/p>\n<p>12. Whodunit<\/p>\n<p>13. Science-Fantasy<\/p>\n<p>14. Magic Realism<\/p>\n<p>15. Spy Thriller<\/p>\n<p>16. Black Comedy<\/p>\n<p>17. Alien Invasion<\/p>\n<p>18. Time Travel<\/p>\n<p>19. Twisted Fairy Tale<\/p>\n<p>20. Fanfiction<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Conflict \/ Problem<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>1. Lover&#8217;s Quarrel!<\/p>\n<p>2. Civil War!<\/p>\n<p>3. Heist Gone Wrong!<\/p>\n<p>4. Assassin!<\/p>\n<p>5. Abduction!<\/p>\n<p>6. Exiled!<\/p>\n<p>7. Haunted By The Past!<\/p>\n<p>8. Sins Of The Father!<\/p>\n<p>9. Betrayed!<\/p>\n<p>10. A Changed World!<\/p>\n<p>11. Trapped!<\/p>\n<p>12. A Quest For Something!<\/p>\n<p>13. A Quest For Someone!<\/p>\n<p>14. Revenge!<\/p>\n<p>15. Enemies At The Gate!<\/p>\n<p>16. Family Thrown Apart!<\/p>\n<p>17. Disease!<\/p>\n<p>18. Lost!<\/p>\n<p>19. Get The Band Back Together!<\/p>\n<p>20. Sanctioned Competition!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Element to Include<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>1. Unicorn<\/p>\n<p>2. Sentient Supercomputer<\/p>\n<p>3. Sea Monster<\/p>\n<p>4. Plane (or Spaceship) Crash<\/p>\n<p>5. A Dead Body<\/p>\n<p>6. A Summoning Ritual<\/p>\n<p>7. A Hallucination<\/p>\n<p>8. Flying Monkeys<\/p>\n<p>9. A Hologram<\/p>\n<p>10. The Devil<\/p>\n<p>11. A Dirty Magazine<\/p>\n<p>12. An Ancient Sword<\/p>\n<p>13. The Restless Dead<\/p>\n<p>14. A Gourmet Meal<\/p>\n<p>15. A Severed Hand<\/p>\n<p>16. Poisonous Snakes<\/p>\n<p>17. A Black Hole<\/p>\n<p>18. Some Manner Of Werecreature\/Shapeshifter<\/p>\n<p>19. A Talking Tree<\/p>\n<p>20. Heaven<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of people telling me how much they loved the previous Game of Aspects challenges, so &#8212; WE SHALL DO IT AGAIN. And we&#8217;ll do it even bigger this time. But! 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