{"id":21186,"date":"2013-11-15T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=21186"},"modified":"2013-11-18T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:35:10","slug":"flash-fiction-challenging-find-your-favorite-opening-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/11\/15\/flash-fiction-challenging-find-your-favorite-opening-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Find Your Favorite Opening Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge, I asked you to come up with an opening line for a story<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, you’re going to write a story based on one of those opening lines.<\/p>\n

(Er, not your own, thanks.)<\/p>\n

Look through them:<\/p>\n

Choose one.<\/p>\n

(Choose one that complies with the original mandate of keeping to 15 words or less.)<\/p>\n

A lot of great options in there. (Though, to be fair, a surprising lot of\u00a0not so great<\/em> options in this batch. Lots of errors and over-the-limits. People: read your entries before you click SUBMIT. It’ll take you like, 30 extra seconds, I promise.)<\/p>\n

Please identify in the comments below which opening line you’ll choose.<\/p>\n

I’ll tally and, presuming there’s a winner, I’ll send that person\u00a0The Kick-Ass Writer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then: you write 1000 words using your chosen line. Post at your online space and link back here.<\/p>\n

I’ll choose one of the participants (by random) and toss you a copy of — well, I dunno what. I’ll grab something off my shelves and mail it to you. (Or, if you’re international, I’ll give you something digital.)<\/p>\n

Due by noon EST on November 22nd.<\/p>\n

Get your fingers tapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge, I asked you to come up with an opening line for a story. This week, you’re going to write a story based on one of those opening lines. (Er, not your own, thanks.) Look through them: Choose one. (Choose one that complies with the original mandate of keeping to 15 words or […]<\/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-21186","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-5vI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186","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=21186"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21193,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions\/21193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}