{"id":28837,"date":"2016-03-11T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=28837"},"modified":"2016-03-10T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:48:27","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-a-story-in-five-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/03\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-a-story-in-five-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: A Story In Five Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This challenge is, as many of them are, both simple and complex, both easy and difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to write a story in five sentences.<\/p>\n<p>No more than 100 words.<\/p>\n<p>You can view it, if you&#8217;d like, as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sentence 1: Beginning \/ Inciting Incident<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sentence 2: Middle<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sentence 3: Middle peak, act turn or pivot<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sentence 4: Climactic turn or twist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sentence 5: Resolution<\/p>\n<p>That is not a strict map, but rather, a reminder that a story is a story, not a snapshot: it has a beginning, a middle and an end.<\/p>\n<p>You can post it below in the comments if you&#8217;d like, or if you&#8217;d prefer to post at your blog and offer a link back, that&#8217;s fine, too.<\/p>\n<p>Please, only\u00a0<em>one<\/em> story. Do not spam the comments with a ton of these.<\/p>\n<p>Just one.<\/p>\n<p>So, make it count.<\/p>\n<p>Due by next Friday, the 18th, at noon EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This challenge is, as many of them are, both simple and complex, both easy and difficult. I want you to write a story in five sentences. No more than 100 words. You can view it, if you&#8217;d like, as: Sentence 1: Beginning \/ Inciting Incident Sentence 2: Middle Sentence 3: Middle peak, act turn or [&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-28837","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-7v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837","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=28837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28839,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837\/revisions\/28839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}