{"id":27083,"date":"2015-06-19T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27083"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:46:05","slug":"a-flash-fiction-challenge-to-create-a-flash-fiction-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/06\/19\/a-flash-fiction-challenge-to-create-a-flash-fiction-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flash Fiction Challenge To Create A Flash Fiction Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE OUROBOROS BITES HIS OWN TAIL.<\/p>\n<p>Ahem.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is, hey, once in a while someone emails me with an idea &#8212; &#8220;Hey, I think this would make a neat flash fiction challenge!&#8221; &#8212; and sometimes, that actually pans out. A lot of times, I fall asleep on my keyboard and accidentally delete your email. Sorry!<\/p>\n<p>So, I thought, let&#8217;s streamline this process a little.<\/p>\n<p>This week, your challenge is to come up with a flash fiction challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Drop in a 100-word-or-less idea for a flash fiction challenge. If I like one and end up using it in the future, I&#8217;ll toss you some kind of prize &#8212; an e-book or e-book bundle or something. (And here&#8217;s where I am shameless and remind you that with coupon code <strong>ARTHARDERMF<\/strong> &#8212; which is to say, Art Harder, Motherfucker, not ARTHAR DERMF &#8212; you can get 25% off <a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/qUjO\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>my gonzo writing e-book bundle<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, thus dropping the total cost for eight books down to $15. That coupon expires 6\/23.)<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, also &#8212; don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/06\/02\/revenge-of-the-awkward-author-photo-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Awkward Author Photo contest<\/strong><\/span><\/a> runs till Tuesday.)<\/p>\n<p>So, drop in your ideas &#8212; one per person, please, if you have it &#8212; into the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got one week: due by Friday, 6\/26, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>(One more shameless plug: I&#8217;ll be at Seton Hill this Saturday, 6\/27, in Western PA giving a big-ass writing talk if you care to hear me &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.setonhill.edu\/calendar\/view\/8597\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tell It Like It Is<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE OUROBOROS BITES HIS OWN TAIL. Ahem. What I mean is, hey, once in a while someone emails me with an idea &#8212; &#8220;Hey, I think this would make a neat flash fiction challenge!&#8221; &#8212; and sometimes, that actually pans out. A lot of times, I fall asleep on my keyboard and accidentally delete your [&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-27083","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-72P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083","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=27083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27087,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083\/revisions\/27087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}