{"id":18955,"date":"2013-06-02T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=18955"},"modified":"2013-06-02T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T12:01:22","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-random-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-choose-your-random-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Random Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right! This week’s challenge is late — I’d written one to post on Friday but WordPress… ate it? I don’t know. It was there one day, then the next it wasn’t. And by then I was at BEA partying with Grumpy Cat, so,\u00a0it was too late<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just the same, I’ve had a few folks email me and ask me to still do one.<\/p>\n

SO HERE WE ARE.<\/p>\n

Your challenge this week:<\/p>\n

Pick three words from the list of ten.<\/p>\n

Incorporate these words into your story.<\/p>\n

Ready?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Scarecrow<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Mint<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Epidemic<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Tongue<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Republic<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Scorpion<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Divorce<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Moon<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. Holiday<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Legend<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Again: three words. Incorporate into the tale. Which doesn’t mean simply using those words — it means making them parts of the plot, characters, or motifs found within. You can choose these words randomly (d10 or random number generator) or eschew chaos and hand-pick ’em.<\/p>\n

    You’ve got (less than) one week.<\/p>\n

    Due by Friday, June 7th, noon EST.<\/p>\n

    Write ~1000 words at your online space. Link back here.<\/p>\n

    CHOOSE YOUR WORDS AND WRITE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    All right! This week’s challenge is late — I’d written one to post on Friday but WordPress… ate it? I don’t know. It was there one day, then the next it wasn’t. And by then I was at BEA partying with Grumpy Cat, so,\u00a0it was too late. Just the same, I’ve had a few folks […]<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4VJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955","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=18955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}