{"id":23579,"date":"2014-05-30T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=23579"},"modified":"2014-05-30T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:35:20","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-random-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/05\/30\/flash-fiction-challenge-random-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Random Title!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: 100-Word Stories<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Once again: the title challenge rears its gorgeously weird head.<\/p>\n

I love this challenge and it usually get a lot of play, so let’s do it.<\/p>\n

Way this works is: you’re gonna randomly throw together a title for your story.<\/p>\n

Use a d20 or a\u00a0random number generator<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to 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. (Examples: “The Dead Boy’s Doghouse,” “Shotgun Promise,” “A Key For Helix.”)<\/p>\n

You’ll have 1000 words, par usual. Post at your blog, link back here. Due in one week — June 6th, Friday — by noon EST. And so, the title tables are (note that you’re free to put the word “The” in front of your title or pluralize words as appropriate):<\/p>\n

Column One<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Whispered<\/li>\n
  2. Mirror<\/li>\n
  3. Junkie’s<\/li>\n
  4. Amaranthine<\/li>\n
  5. Diamond<\/li>\n
  6. Shotgun<\/li>\n
  7. Labyrinthine<\/li>\n
  8. Bloody<\/li>\n
  9. Seven-Year<\/li>\n
  10. Crown of<\/li>\n
  11. Starship<\/li>\n
  12. Betrayer’s<\/li>\n
  13. Scarlett<\/li>\n
  14. Ugly<\/li>\n
  15. Unlucky<\/li>\n
  16. Dead Boy’s<\/li>\n
  17. A Key for<\/li>\n
  18. Grave Robber’s<\/li>\n
  19. Castle<\/li>\n
  20. Cackling<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0Column Two<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Murders<\/li>\n
    2. Worlds<\/li>\n
    3. Helix<\/li>\n
    4. Beetle<\/li>\n
    5. Dowager<\/li>\n
    6. Gunslingers<\/li>\n
    7. Firestorm<\/li>\n
    8. Promise<\/li>\n
    9. Sea<\/li>\n
    10. Kevin<\/li>\n
    11. Doghouse<\/li>\n
    12. Pelican<\/li>\n
    13. Breakfast<\/li>\n
    14. Curse<\/li>\n
    15. Coinpurse<\/li>\n
    16. Rider<\/li>\n
    17. Bastards<\/li>\n
    18. Diary<\/li>\n
    19. Souls<\/li>\n
    20. Jackals<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Last week’s challenge: 100-Word Stories. Once again: the title challenge rears its gorgeously weird head. I love this challenge and it usually get a lot of play, so let’s do it. Way this works is: you’re gonna randomly throw together a title for your story. Use a d20 or a\u00a0random number generator\u00a0to consult the table […]<\/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-23579","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-68j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579","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=23579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23583,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions\/23583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}