{"id":8751,"date":"2011-05-06T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=8751"},"modified":"2011-05-06T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:33:38","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-profanity-is-a-circus-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/05\/06\/flash-fiction-challenge-profanity-is-a-circus-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: &#8220;Profanity Is A Circus Of Language&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted earlier this week in my &#8220;<a title=\"Why Do Writers Drink?\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/05\/03\/why-writers-drink\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Why Writers Drink<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8221; post, I am not a man who shies away from profanity. In fact, I leap toward it, arms open, my sticky jam-hands ever-reaching. What I said then was: &#8220;Profanity is fun. Profanity is a circus of language where the clowns are  all insane and the elephant just stepped on a trapeze artist and  something somewhere is on fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And thus, this week&#8217;s flash fiction <del>sonofabitch<\/del> challenge is born.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s all you gotta do:<\/p>\n<p>Write a story where profanity features in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus points if:<\/p>\n<p>a) The profanity is creative or otherwise uniquely used.<\/p>\n<p>b) The profanity carries over into the tale (perhaps even as a part of a character&#8217;s name!).<\/p>\n<p>c) Your squealing love of profanity comes through in the tale told.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, you have 1000 words with which to tackle this motherfucking challenge. And you&#8217;ve got one week to do it &#8212; the deadline is next Friday morning, before noon o&#8217;clock.<\/p>\n<p>Post to your blog. Link back to here if you&#8217;d like. Then drop a link in the comments here so we know that your story exists so that we may scurry over and read its goddamn brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>Please to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>And further, <em>beard the fuck on<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I said was: &#8220;Profanity is fun. Profanity is a circus of language where the clowns are all insane and the elephant just stepped on a trapeze artist and something somewhere is on fire.&#8221; And thus, this week&#8217;s flash fiction challenge is born.<\/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":[71,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-8751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","8":"tag-writing","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2h9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751","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=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8755,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions\/8755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}