Posts Tagged ‘Flash Fiction Challenge’

Right, this week’s challenge. Write a 1,000 word story (give or take). Parameters? Go here and get four elements to include in your story. You get one week to write it, post it at your online space and drop a link in the comments. Easy right? Yeah. Genre doesn’t matter.

So get to writing!

Right, welcome to the first of who knows how many flash fiction challenges. Rules are simple. Once a week I’ll post a challenge here. You then get one week to write and post a flash fiction piece at your online site. Leave a comment below to where it is so people can check it out.

This is, of course, shamelessly stolen from when Chuck Wendig ran these at terribleminds.com. I at least got a few pieces out of that.

So for this week’s challenge: the sub-genre smashup. Pick (or randomly decide) one sub-genre from each list. Your goal is to create a complete story out of the result. Let’s say 2k words, max. Deadline is 12 pm Eastern Time, 3/28.

Good luck!

Sub-Genres

Category 1:

  1. Weird West
  2. BDSM
  3. Grimdark
  4. sword-and-planet
  5. Jungle adventure
  6. Occult
  7. Body Horror
  8. Southern Gothic
  9. Hard-boiled
  10. Paranormal Romance

Category 2:

  1. Alternate History
  2. Cyberpunk
  3. Space Opera
  4. Cosmic Horror
  5. Diesel Punk
  6. Espionage
  7. Heist
  8. Ghost story
  9. Military sci-fi
  10. Superhero

Final word – feel free to tag back to this post and share it around with anyone you think might be interested.