{"id":9481,"date":"2011-06-24T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2011-07-04T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:31:56","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-sub-genre-mash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/06\/24\/flash-fiction-challenge-sub-genre-mash-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Sub-Genre Mash-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, last week’s challenge is worth your look-see — “MUST LOVE ROBOTS<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.” Scan the comments. Find the delicious robot stories contained within.<\/p>\n

And now for this week’s challenge.<\/p>\n

Here, then, is a list of six sub-genres:<\/p>\n

Steampunk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Superhero.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noir.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erotica.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Farce.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Men’s Adventure.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your job is to choose two<\/em> of these and mash them up into one crazy flash fiction tale. Superhero Erotica? Steampunk Noir? Men’s Farcical Adventure? Mix, match. Go nuts.<\/p>\n

You’ve got 1000 words.<\/p>\n

Due by July 1st (Friday) at noon (EST).<\/p>\n

Here’s the second thing, though: I’ll pick my favorite story out of the bunch and offer that writer a critique of up to 5,000 words of fiction (short story, part of a novel, whatever).<\/p>\n

So, jump in. Get writing. Write so it rocks.<\/p>\n

See you on the other side when you invent your own sub-sub-genres.<\/p>\n

EDIT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Happy July 4th, peeps.<\/p>\n

Okay, finally gone and read all the flash fiction entries.<\/p>\n

Some really strong stuff here. Like, wow. Monkey heads and Mister Polisher and the grim relationship between hooker and john. In the end, it came down to Amber Gardner’s superhero-noir (“Savior<\/strong><\/span><\/a>“) and, well, Jim Macfee’s Superhero Noir (“Sanction<\/strong><\/span><\/a>“). In terms of picking folks who might want an edit, I’m looking for a few things, right? I’m looking for stuff that’s good. I’m looking for writers with potential<\/em>, even if that potential hasn’t been realized. And I’m looking for a selfish fix to read more of their work.<\/p>\n

Even now I pinball between the two stories.<\/p>\n

So, I’m going to cheat and pick both, giving one the “2nd prize” treatment.<\/p>\n

I’m picking Jim for the 5k edit.<\/p>\n

I’m picking Amber for a smaller 2.5k edit.<\/p>\n

Congrats, both of you crazy kids. Bounce me a mail at chuckwendig [at] terribleminds [dot] com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday. This is Terribleminds. That means it’s high-time to do some motherfucking flash fiction awesomeness, am I right? I’m totally right. Contained within is this week’s challenge. Get in the game. Write your 1000 words. Go forth and be awesome.<\/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],"class_list":{"0":"post-9481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2sV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","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=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}