{"id":9956,"date":"2011-07-22T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2011-07-22T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:07:03","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-thats-right-i-said-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/22\/flash-fiction-challenge-thats-right-i-said-unicorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: That’s Right, I Said “Unicorn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge — “An Uncharted Apocalypse<\/a><\/strong><\/span>” — had some amazing stories, so you should go check ’em out. I’m going to take the weekend pick my favorite five and then toss those five folks a copy of my newest e-book, 250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I like unicorns.<\/p>\n

I mean, not in the sense that I have hundreds of unicorn collectibles on my shelves — *hurries to drop a blanket over my shelves* — it’s just, dang, unicorns crack me up. A pretty white horse with a big horn sticking out of his head and, boom, that’s it. Instant mythological favorite the world around. It’s an absurd animal.<\/p>\n

Real reason I talk about unicorns so much — *quick runs to tear down wall of unicorn posters — is that the “unicorn” represents that kind of bullshit special snowflake precious writer mystique, right? The same people who believe a glittery Muse is going to fill their heads with hot notions are the same people who probably believe a unicorn is how babies are made.<\/p>\n

Unicorns are just really weird and really goofy.<\/p>\n

*darts to closet, slams door before you can see the unicorn cosplay outfits*<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Thus, it seems high time to have a unicorn-themed flash fiction challenge.<\/p>\n

I want you to incorporate the unicorn into your 1000-word story.<\/p>\n

I don’t care how, but you get bonus points for thinking creatively or doing something different with the creature that we haven’t seen or don’t otherwise expect. Bring some attitude to it.<\/p>\n

Any genre will do.<\/p>\n

You’ve got one week. Friday, July 29th, by noon EST.<\/p>\n

Get on it.<\/p>\n

Oh! And this week, I’ll pick one<\/em> favorite.<\/p>\n

That favorite will get all three of my e-books.<\/p>\n

Peace in the Middle East, yo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thus, it seems high time to have a unicorn-themed flash fiction challenge. I want you to incorporate the unicorn into your 1000-word story. You get bonus points for thinking creatively or doing something different with the creature that we haven’t seen or don’t otherwise expect. <\/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-9956","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-2AA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9959,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}