{"id":21858,"date":"2014-01-10T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2014-01-10T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T13:37:20","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-roll-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/01\/10\/flash-fiction-challenge-roll-for-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: “Roll For Title!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smell that?<\/p>\n

*takes long sniff*<\/p>\n

It is the first flash fiction challenge of the year.<\/p>\n

I’VE THAT SCENT OF SHEER STORY POTENTIAL CLINGING TO THE INSIDE OF MY NOSE.<\/p>\n

And it is wonderfully sweet.<\/p>\n

I’d actually like to take a little moment to say I’m so happy that these challenges seem to get people writing and I’ve seen more than a few folks sell-through stories\u00a0based\u00a0<\/em>on these challenges, which makes the brittle broken snow-globe that I call my heart twitch and shine for one second.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let’s get to it.<\/p>\n

All you need to do this week is to use a d20 or a random number generator<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to consult the table at the bottom of the document to roll for a story’s title. It’s a two-part title (meaning, two random numbers 1-20) and whatever title you get must fit the story you write for it.<\/p>\n

You’ll have 1000 words, par usual. Post at your blog, link back here. Due in one week — January 17th, Friday — by noon EST. Easy-peasy story-squeezy.<\/p>\n

(Example of an earlier, similar challenge here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The title tables are (and you’re free to put the word “The” in front of your title):<\/p>\n

Column One<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Snowbound<\/li>\n
  2. Devil’s<\/li>\n
  3. Accursed<\/li>\n
  4. Whispering<\/li>\n
  5. Amethyst<\/li>\n
  6. Griefstruck<\/li>\n
  7. Lovestruck<\/li>\n
  8. Red<\/li>\n
  9. Cartographer’s<\/li>\n
  10. Chaos<\/li>\n
  11. Orbital<\/li>\n
  12. Jackdaw’s<\/li>\n
  13. Minotaur<\/li>\n
  14. Invisible<\/li>\n
  15. Dog Star<\/li>\n
  16. Helical<\/li>\n
  17. Flight of the<\/li>\n
  18. Cerulean<\/li>\n
  19. Seamstress’<\/li>\n
  20. Ten-Year<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0Column Two<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Murders<\/li>\n
    2. Kid’s Club<\/li>\n
    3. Angel<\/li>\n
    4. Vault<\/li>\n
    5. Bookshop<\/li>\n
    6. Champion<\/li>\n
    7. Palace<\/li>\n
    8. Fear<\/li>\n
    9. Skull<\/li>\n
    10. Potion<\/li>\n
    11. Birdhouse<\/li>\n
    12. Encyclopedia<\/li>\n
    13. Peacock<\/li>\n
    14. Prison<\/li>\n
    15. Wire<\/li>\n
    16. Rider<\/li>\n
    17. Story<\/li>\n
    18. God<\/li>\n
    19. Parasite<\/li>\n
    20. Earth<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Smell that? *takes long sniff* It is the first flash fiction challenge of the year. I’VE THAT SCENT OF SHEER STORY POTENTIAL CLINGING TO THE INSIDE OF MY NOSE. And it is wonderfully sweet. I’d actually like to take a little moment to say I’m so happy that these challenges seem to get people writing […]<\/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-21858","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-5Gy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","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=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21863,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions\/21863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}