{"id":25863,"date":"2015-01-16T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=25863"},"modified":"2015-01-16T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:46:41","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-its-x-meets-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/01\/16\/flash-fiction-challenge-its-x-meets-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: “It’s X Meets Y!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: Who The Fuck Is My D&D Character?<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I have noted in the past, I love that some writers describe their stories — usually in an elevator pitch or to sell the story to an agent, editor or reader — as “THIS STORY meets THAT STORY.” Right? “Oh,” the writer says, “It’s like CATCHER IN THE RYE meets SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS.” And you’re like, whoa, what the fuck does that even mean.<\/p>\n

Today, we are going to find out.<\/p>\n

Below, you’ll find two columns, each of 20\u00a0different fairly well-known properties.<\/p>\n

You will randomly choose one from each column either by d20 or random number generator<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then you will literally fill in the variables of the equation:<\/p>\n

IT’S LIKE X<\/strong> MEETS Y<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And you will write the resultant story.<\/p>\n

You have — let’s go with 2000 words this time around.<\/p>\n

Write the story. Post on your blog or online space. Drop a link here so we can all read it. The stories will be due and ready one week from now — next Friday at noon EST.<\/p>\n

Note: your goal is not to literally mash these up in fan-fiction (though I suppose if that’s where your head goes, hey, I can’t stop you) — the goal is to take the\u00a0idea,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0spirit<\/em> of the combination and make them into a story all your own. What is the theoretical mash-up look like and feel like? Diggit? So, what’s the story like if you get: “It’s like HARRY POTTER meets INDIANA JONES?” Or, “It’s like GAME OF THRONES meets SCOOBY DOO.”<\/p>\n

Smash them together, see what original story squishes out.<\/p>\n

Ready? Set? Write.<\/p>\n

COLUMN X<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Terminator<\/li>\n
  2. Seinfeld<\/li>\n
  3. Lord of the Rings<\/li>\n
  4. When Harry Met Sally<\/li>\n
  5. Jurassic Park<\/li>\n
  6. Watership Down<\/li>\n
  7. The Matrix<\/li>\n
  8. John Carpenter’s The Thing<\/li>\n
  9. James Bond<\/li>\n
  10. Thomas the Tank Engine<\/li>\n
  11. Transformers<\/li>\n
  12. Harry Potter<\/li>\n
  13. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/li>\n
  14. Fast and the Furious<\/li>\n
  15. Being John Malkovich<\/li>\n
  16. Frozen<\/li>\n
  17. Top Gun<\/li>\n
  18. Rambo<\/li>\n
  19. Game of Thrones<\/li>\n
  20. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    COLUMN Y<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Star Wars<\/li>\n
    2. True Detective<\/li>\n
    3. True Grit<\/li>\n
    4. Toy Story<\/li>\n
    5. Die Hard<\/li>\n
    6. Scooby Doo<\/li>\n
    7. Friday the 13th<\/li>\n
    8. The Avengers<\/li>\n
    9. Star Trek<\/li>\n
    10. 50 Shades of Grey<\/li>\n
    11. Super Mario Brothers<\/li>\n
    12. Indiana Jones<\/li>\n
    13. Alice in Wonderland<\/li>\n
    14. Twilight<\/li>\n
    15. Jaws<\/li>\n
    16. Titanic<\/li>\n
    17. Back to the Future<\/li>\n
    18. The Godfather<\/li>\n
    19. Charlotte’s Web<\/li>\n
    20. The Hunger Games<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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