{"id":19377,"date":"2013-06-28T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2013-06-28T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:56:12","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-down-the-tv-tropes-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/28\/flash-fiction-challenge-down-the-tv-tropes-rabbit-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Down The TV Tropes Rabbit Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: “Another Roll Of The Dice<\/strong><\/span><\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n

Given that earlier in the week we talked about tropes and in particular the infinitely-entertaining website known as “TV Tropes,” well…<\/p>\n

Here’s your mission, should you choose to accept it.<\/p>\n

Go to TVtropes.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the top menu bar is a button called random<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I want you to click that button.<\/p>\n

You’ll get a trope.<\/p>\n

You will use this trope as the basis to write your flash fiction this week.<\/p>\n

(Identify the trope for us so we can see your pick, please.)<\/p>\n

Now, sometimes you’ll click it and you might get something specific to television or film, and okay, it’s totally fine to click a few times to get something that actually suits a ~1000-word piece of flash fiction. Nobody’s watching. Except me, in your ceiling.<\/p>\n

You’ve got one week to write your story on your own online space and link back here — due by July 5th, at noon EST. Now to get tropey, willya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: “Another Roll Of The Dice“ Given that earlier in the week we talked about tropes and in particular the infinitely-entertaining website known as “TV Tropes,” well… Here’s your mission, should you choose to accept it. Go to TVtropes.org. In the top menu bar is a button called random. I want you to […]<\/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-19377","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-52x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377","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=19377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19381,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions\/19381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}