{"id":25255,"date":"2014-11-07T07:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=25255"},"modified":"2022-02-02T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:01:21","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-three-story-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/11\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-three-story-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Three-Sentence Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty straightforward &#8212; given that we&#8217;re in the long haul of National Novel Writing Month, feels like a shorter, sharper flash fiction contest deserves to be in play. What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means I want you to write a single story in three sentences. The shorter those sentences are, the better. Remember: a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.<\/p>\n<p>It is not merely a vignette &#8212; not simply a snapshot in time.<\/p>\n<p>You can deposit this story in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Due in one week &#8212; by Friday, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick three random participants on that Friday and will toss each winner a copy of my newest writing e-book,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/10\/30\/now-available-30-days-in-the-word-mines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">30 Days in the Word Mines<\/span><\/a>. <\/strong>(A book that has been described as an advent calendar for NaNoWriMo, which is a description I quite like.)<\/p>\n<p>Sound good?<\/p>\n<p><script data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9226117531031874\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Get to writing.<\/p>\n<p>Three sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Short as you can make them &#8212; clarity and brevity are king.<\/p>\n<p>Go.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty straightforward &#8212; given that we&#8217;re in the long haul of National Novel Writing Month, feels like a shorter, sharper flash fiction contest deserves to be in play. What does that mean? It means I want you to write a single story in three sentences. The shorter those sentences are, the better. Remember: a story [&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-25255","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-6zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255","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=25255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42163,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255\/revisions\/42163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}