{"id":19869,"date":"2013-08-02T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19869"},"modified":"2013-08-02T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:54:53","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-somethingpunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/08\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-somethingpunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Somethingpunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/26\/flash-fiction-challenge-four-random-items\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/26\/flash-fiction-challenge-four-random-items\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Four Random Items<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/30\/under-the-empyrean-sky-out-now\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/30\/under-the-empyrean-sky-out-now\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I wrote this book<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. It&#8217;s out now, and for a subgenre, I sometimes laughingly call it &#8220;cornpunk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;m over at Scalzi&#8217;s Whatever talking about the Big Idea behind the book, screaming a bit about corn and GMOs and Monsanto and marriage equality and raising a child and &#8212; well, hell, <a title=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2013\/08\/02\/the-big-idea-chuck-wendig-2\/\" href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2013\/08\/02\/the-big-idea-chuck-wendig-2\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>just go read it<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Point is, I talk a little about the origins of &#8220;cornpunk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s challenge, I want you to come up with your own something-punk.<\/p>\n<p>Preferably something that hasn&#8217;t been done before (cyber- steam- diesel- bug- etc.).<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Due in one week&#8217;s time: August 9th, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick three random participants to get signed copies of\u00a0<strong>Under the Empyrean Sky<\/strong> (if you&#8217;re in the US; I can send internationally if you want to pony up the shipping).<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and write, &#8216;punkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;Four Random Items.&#8221; I wrote this book. It&#8217;s out now, and for a subgenre, I sometimes laughingly call it &#8220;cornpunk.&#8221; This week, I&#8217;m over at Scalzi&#8217;s Whatever talking about the Big Idea behind the book, screaming a bit about corn and GMOs and Monsanto and marriage equality and raising a child and [&hellip;]<\/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-19869","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-5at","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869","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=19869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19873,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869\/revisions\/19873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}