{"id":2452,"date":"2026-09-25T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:27:29","slug":"amwriting-lets-tell-a-story-saturdaystorytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"#AmWriting\u2014Let&#8217;s Tell a Story #SaturdayStorytime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Saturday-Storytime-1.png?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"#SaturdayStoryime\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Saturday-Storytime-1.png?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Saturday-Storytime-1.png?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Saturday-Storytime-1.png?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Saturday-Storytime-1.png?w=1122&amp;ssl=1 1122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/> (Beth Turnage Blog) Years ago, Chuck Wending would sponsor a weekly storytelling contest on his blog <a href=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/\">Terrible Minds<\/a>, based on prompts he posted, which was a lot of fun. Then he gave it up. Awww. <\/p>\n<p>Now that I have my aggregatory <a href=\"http:\/\/SFFBloggers.com\">SFFBloggers<\/a> up and running, I had a wild thought to promote blogging and SFF writing in general, that we writers can gather around a hashtag, #saturdaystorytime, and write and post whole stories of at least 300 words or our WIP excerpts on our blogs.<\/p>\n<p>So, I have my story for tomorrow, an amusing tale of an AI and the potential end of the world, so I&#8217;ll post it tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>You? <\/p>\n<p>#SaturdayStorytime will be here next week, and the next, and&#8230; you see where it goes. It&#8217;s a hashtag, so it won&#8217;t go away. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make #SaturdayStorytime great. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beth Turnage Blog) Years ago, Chuck Wending would sponsor a weekly storytelling contest on his blog Terrible Minds, based on prompts he posted, which was a lot of fun. Then he gave it up. Awww. Now that I have my aggregatory SFFBloggers up and running, I had a wild thought to promote blogging and SFF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[771,33],"tags":[801,124,136,802,250,270,334],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staturday-storytime","category-the-writers-craft","tag-amwrting","tag-epic-fantasy-fiction","tag-fiction","tag-saturday-storytime","tag-science-fiction","tag-sff","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Saturday-Storytime-1.png?fit=1122%2C1402&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}