Lee "Budgie" Barnett ([info]budgie_uk) wrote,
2010-06-12 18:58:00
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Fast Fiction Challenge 2010: Thirty Days... and Beyond?

Post challenge notification: Please note that the Fast Fiction Challenge 2010 has now ceased. No further challenges, please.



Well, as will come as no surprise to regular readers, I started answering fast fiction challenges again, as part of the Thirty Days Project.

I'm enjoying writing them, and you've at least another 19 of them coming your way before the end of June. (Click on the tag below to see all posts/stories for this year's challenge.) But if I get the challenges, let's see how long we can carry on for.

As you'll have seen, I've done this now for several years, and gotten some superb challenges and hopefully you've got some equally superb stories. I've still got five (*now all completed, working through new challenges) to complete from the most recent set of challenges:
Why Is It Orange?; hover - [info]2zen2 - Done
Keep Calm; interrogation - @_irene_adler - Done
Why a Duck?; chupacabra - [info]kmp50 - Done
The King of Kings; pedigree - Phil Barnett - Done
Demonic Persuasions: Inhuman Acts; gourmand - [info]hylandsdeath - Done
But I need more...

A reminder of the challenge:
Reply with a title (maximum of four words) about which you'd like me to write a fast fiction of exactly 200 words, together with a single word you want me to include in the text of the tale.

(Completely daft suggestions will be ignored, so no suggestions of "antidisestablishmentarianism" along with a title of "sex lives of cornflakes".)

OK, go.

Couple of points:

(1) Please remember that it's a maximum of four words in the title; you can use one, two three or four; one of the earliest challenges merely gave me the single word "cold" to use as the title and the word. (Thanks [info]apiphile; as I recall, you quite liked that one...)

(2) Please remember that if you're not on Livejournal, I have no idea who's given me the challenge unless you identify yourself. If you're coming here from Twitter or Facebook, please give me your Twitter ID/Facebook ID so I can let you know when I've written your story, i.e. answered your challenge.

Didn't expect me not to plug the book, did you?

The Fast Fiction Challenge has now been collected in print and can be purchased through lulu.com and, if you're in the US, via Amazon.com here.

180 of the best stories from the first three years.

The more challenges I get, the more stories you'll get, folks. Feel free to hype this to anyone and everyone on Twitter, blogs, mailing lists, emails, whatever. Non LJ members can either post the suggestions using LJ's "anonymous post" thing (but please ask them to remember to identify themselves so I can let them know it's been done!) or email me on budgie @ hypotheticals dot co dot uk.

A reminder of the challenge itself: maximum of four words in the title, and one word to use in the story.

The URL for this entry, by the way, if you want to link to it, is: http://budgie_uk.livejournal.com/1131303.html. or http://j.mp/aH72sF

The Fast Fiction Challenge 2010: They're back.
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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 18:20:27 UTC 1 year ago

challenge from biodocnc (from twitter)

Windowshopping At Midnight
Guppy
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[info]budgie_uk

June 17 2010, 17:53:17 UTC 1 year ago

Re: challenge from biodocnc (from twitter)

Done and posted...
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[info]on_broadway36

June 12 2010, 20:36:43 UTC 1 year ago

Fire in the Woods
ridicule

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:05:20 UTC 1 year ago

Great title! Thanks...
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[info]budgie_uk

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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 20:39:38 UTC 1 year ago

Make It Go

leaflet

Name: Tricia
Twitter username: chocl8girl
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[info]budgie_uk

June 19 2010, 16:56:00 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Make It Go

Done and posted...
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[info]apiphile

June 12 2010, 20:40:32 UTC 1 year ago

I did like it!

[info]zapaper

June 12 2010, 20:41:05 UTC 1 year ago

Fast Fiction Challenge

Once Within Memory
truffle (the chocolate kind)

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:31:52 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Fast Fiction Challenge

Cheers - an interesting challenge!

[info]budgie_uk

1 year ago

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[info]cannellfan

June 12 2010, 20:41:12 UTC 1 year ago

Should Have But Didn't

guacamole

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:32:48 UTC 1 year ago

"Should Have But Didn't", eh?

Great title - once had "Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda..." but this gives me a great idea! Thanks...
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[info]budgie_uk

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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 20:49:44 UTC 1 year ago

LunaTinx on Twitter

Games Children Play
Morphine
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[info]budgie_uk

June 22 2010, 17:02:45 UTC 1 year ago

Done and posted...
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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 20:55:11 UTC 1 year ago

Fast Fiction Challenge

The Little Blue Room

irruption


Submitted by
@JillEWilliams
(Twitter account)
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[info]budgie_uk

June 23 2010, 20:36:46 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Fast Fiction Challenge

Done and Posted...
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[info]the_arc5

June 12 2010, 21:01:15 UTC 1 year ago

Did you know?

catching

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:33:01 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks!
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[info]budgie_uk

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[info]sgtsiler

June 12 2010, 21:03:17 UTC 1 year ago

Apologies for the carnage.
plaid

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:33:13 UTC 1 year ago

LOVE the title - thank you.

[info]sgtsiler

1 year ago

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[info]budgie_uk

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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:03:39 UTC 1 year ago

World of Corn
'kit'

I'm busaiku25 on Twitter btw

[info]budgie_uk

June 27 2010, 20:18:06 UTC 1 year ago

Done and Posted...

Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:07:24 UTC 1 year ago

Challenge

Title : Autumn Gate Estimate
Word : Scandalous


@jazminlee23 on twitter

[info]budgie_uk

June 26 2010, 18:21:09 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Challenge

Done and posted...

Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:07:59 UTC 1 year ago

The Fast Fiction Challenge

My Twitter: @cesariusx

My four words: Not canned tuna again
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[info]budgie_uk

June 30 2010, 17:54:56 UTC 1 year ago

Re: The Fast Fiction Challenge

Done and Posted...
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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:08:02 UTC 1 year ago

PhilRoland on Twitter


Title: Ride On

Word: Nosebleed
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[info]budgie_uk

June 30 2010, 17:55:35 UTC 1 year ago

Done and Posted...
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[info]vivific

June 12 2010, 21:08:44 UTC 1 year ago

Challenge

Everyone You Don't Know; missionary

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:33:32 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Challenge

Thanks for playing!
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[info]budgie_uk

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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:08:58 UTC 1 year ago

A Divine Intervention

addicted
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[info]budgie_uk

July 1 2010, 18:36:37 UTC 1 year ago

Re: A Divine Intervention

Done and Posted...
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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:13:42 UTC 1 year ago

The fast fiction challenge

Phrase: Not canned tuna again!!
word: serenity

Twitter: @CESARIUSX

Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:20:08 UTC 1 year ago

My Life Unplugged

tractor



i'm @bgalvao on twitter, by the way. great thing you're doing here, really love the concept!

[info]budgie_uk

July 2 2010, 17:24:30 UTC 1 year ago

Re: My Life Unplugged

Done and posted...

Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:30:14 UTC 1 year ago

Challenge! (sorry if this coes through twice!)

Title: We've met
Word to include: gloaming.

@Farin16 on twitter.
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[info]budgie_uk

July 3 2010, 23:28:08 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Challenge! (sorry if this coes through twice!)

Done and Posted...
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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:32:04 UTC 1 year ago

Ophelia's Secret- hesitation

I'm wuthering_alice on Twitter :)
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[info]budgie_uk

July 5 2010, 09:24:06 UTC 1 year ago

Done and posted...
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[info]chani_atreides

June 12 2010, 21:34:50 UTC 1 year ago

Title: Darling fetch the Axe
Word: Nerd

via Wil Wheaton's twitter ;)

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:36:02 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks 0 glad to see you here!

[info]kateshort

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[info]budgie_uk

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[info]budgie_uk

1 year ago

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[info]ellehwho

June 12 2010, 21:35:14 UTC 1 year ago

Living on Edge

Mountain

[info]budgie_uk

June 12 2010, 21:36:18 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks!

[info]ellehwho

1 year ago

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[info]budgie_uk

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Anonymous

June 12 2010, 21:35:16 UTC 1 year ago

@jonmeacham

Title: Grainy Technicolor Nightmares
Word: knavery
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[info]budgie_uk

July 8 2010, 16:57:23 UTC 1 year ago

Done and Posted...
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[info]seularen

June 12 2010, 21:36:10 UTC 1 year ago

See the Future
precisely
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[info]budgie_uk

July 9 2010, 16:48:30 UTC 1 year ago

Done and posted...
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[info]la_petite_singe

June 12 2010, 21:36:32 UTC 1 year ago

The Oldest Sea Turtle; phlebotomist.
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[info]budgie_uk

July 10 2010, 19:22:48 UTC 1 year ago

Done and Posted...
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