{"id":24563,"date":"2014-08-22T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=24563"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:34:33","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/08\/22\/flash-fiction-challenge-and-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: And, Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last week&#8217;s challenge: <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/08\/15\/flash-fiction-challenge-color-title-challenge\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/08\/15\/flash-fiction-challenge-color-title-challenge\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Color Title Challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week?<\/p>\n<p>Both easy and difficult, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I want your 1000-word story to be\u00a0<em>all action<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that action could be: gunplay, karate kicking, fighting, running, car chasing.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the standard &#8220;action movie fare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or: it could be fucking. Or cooking. Or arm-wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Or some other notable action characters would undertake.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is:\u00a0<em>make it exciting<\/em>. From start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8212; and! &#8212; make it a complete story.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning, middle, ending.<\/p>\n<p>Get to writing.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got seven days.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got your own blog to post to, and the comments to link it in.<\/p>\n<p>Get writing, word-nerds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge: The Color Title Challenge This week? Both easy and difficult, I think. I want your 1000-word story to be\u00a0all action. Now, that action could be: gunplay, karate kicking, fighting, running, car chasing. In other words, the standard &#8220;action movie fare.&#8221; Or: it could be fucking. Or cooking. Or arm-wrestling. Or some other [&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-24563","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-6ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563","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=24563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24566,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions\/24566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}