{"id":32002,"date":"2018-03-16T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=32002"},"modified":"2018-03-16T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:02:49","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-magic-realism-bots-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/03\/16\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-magic-realism-bots-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Magic Realism Bot’s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a great Twitter account<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You should go to it — the Magic Realism Bot — and therein you’ll find an endless array of story prompts. I’ve no idea if they’re actually written by a person with intention or somehow cobbled together by a wise and weird neural network (I’d guess the former, but who knows?), but either way, I’d say use ’em.<\/p>\n

Pick a prompt.<\/p>\n

Write a story based on it.<\/p>\n

Length<\/strong>: ~1000 words<\/p>\n

Due by<\/strong>: Friday, March 23rd, noon EST<\/p>\n

Write at your online space.<\/p>\n

And link back so we can read it.<\/p>\n

Now, a quick bit — I get emails sometimes where people say to me, “Hey, wait, what does that last part mean? Post to my online space and give a link?” It means you need to find somewhere online to host your work. Be that Tumblr, or WordPress, or some ancient Livejournal instance, you will need to find a place to post your words publicly so that you can then, after posting, grab a link and drop it into the comments below. K? K.<\/p>\n

Go write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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