Round six themes
By popular demand, we are providing this round's themes early in hopes that those who wish to start early have a little extra time!
ichi: Life and Death, by doumeki
1. Nakade
2. Seki
3. Eternal Life
4. Gun Six
5. Notchers
ni: Five Sensory experiences, by trixie_chick
1. Sight - black, brown, grey, red, white
2. Taste - salt, sugar, coffee, liquor, ginger
3. Smell - lavender, vanilla, lemon, roses, tea
4. Touch - fur, leather, wood, stone, flesh
5. Hearing - clack, bang, crunch, whoosh, bumbum
Take one prompt from each sense, or take all the prompts
from one sense.
san: Song lyrics selected by chaineddove
1. "I don't mind if you don't mind, cause I don't shine if
you don't shine..." - The Killers, Read My Mind
2. "I thought I loved you, but it's just how you looked in
the light. A teenage vow in a parking lot: til tonight do us
part..." - Fall Out Boy, Hum Hallelujah
3. "In my daydreams, in my sleep, infatuation turning into
disease; you could cure me..." - The Spill Canvas, All
Over You
4. "Tonight, maybe we're gonna run, dreaming of the Osaka
sun, dreaming of when the morning comes..." - Coldplay,
Lovers in Japan
5. "Even the best fall down sometimes, even the wrong words
seem to rhyme, out of the doubt that fills my mind, I
somehow find you and I collide..." - Howie Day,
Collide
shi: OLD (selected by chaineddove, doumeki and trixie_chick)
1. "From the desk of Amano..."
2. Tengen
3. Fantasy (Youtube)
4. "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." - Terry Pratchett
5. Atari
go: go: OLD (author's choice!)
Authors may choose up to five themes from previous blind_go theme challenges that are not listed above. Round Two Themes; Round Three Themes; Round Four Themes; Round Five Themes.
The theme challenge is by no means mandatory, although we hope that it'll provide you with inspiration for your writing.
For inclusion in the theme challenge, your submission must list each theme you used. Both the author that earns the most points for a single fic and the one who earns the most points overall win be eligible for a prize. However, the winner of the theme challenge will not necessarily be the person who uses the most themes, so please don't feel obliged to cram in as many themes as you can. Rather, we hope that you will take a group of themes that you find interesting and use them to write a great story.
We will be judging your theme usage on the following criteria:
1. Frequency: how often is the theme explicitly (or implicitly) referenced in the story
2. Accuracy: how accurately has the theme been used
3. Purpose: how integral is the theme to the story
4. Execution: how smoothly the theme has been incorporated into the story
5. Creativity: how creatively the theme has been interpreted
For each theme you include in your submission, we will assign a point value from 1 to 5 for each of the above criteria. All the points for all the themes will be added up, and the writer with the highest number of points will be awarded a prize for their efforts. Since we realize that all of these criteria are highly subjective, the three mods will do their evaluations independently and take the average to determine the point totals.
ichi: Life and Death, by doumeki
1. Nakade
2. Seki
3. Eternal Life
4. Gun Six
5. Notchers
ni: Five Sensory experiences, by trixie_chick
1. Sight - black, brown, grey, red, white
2. Taste - salt, sugar, coffee, liquor, ginger
3. Smell - lavender, vanilla, lemon, roses, tea
4. Touch - fur, leather, wood, stone, flesh
5. Hearing - clack, bang, crunch, whoosh, bumbum
Take one prompt from each sense, or take all the prompts
from one sense.
san: Song lyrics selected by chaineddove
1. "I don't mind if you don't mind, cause I don't shine if
you don't shine..." - The Killers, Read My Mind
2. "I thought I loved you, but it's just how you looked in
the light. A teenage vow in a parking lot: til tonight do us
part..." - Fall Out Boy, Hum Hallelujah
3. "In my daydreams, in my sleep, infatuation turning into
disease; you could cure me..." - The Spill Canvas, All
Over You
4. "Tonight, maybe we're gonna run, dreaming of the Osaka
sun, dreaming of when the morning comes..." - Coldplay,
Lovers in Japan
5. "Even the best fall down sometimes, even the wrong words
seem to rhyme, out of the doubt that fills my mind, I
somehow find you and I collide..." - Howie Day,
Collide
shi: OLD (selected by chaineddove, doumeki and trixie_chick)
1. "From the desk of Amano..."
2. Tengen
3. Fantasy (Youtube)
4. "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." - Terry Pratchett
5. Atari
go: go: OLD (author's choice!)
Authors may choose up to five themes from previous blind_go theme challenges that are not listed above. Round Two Themes; Round Three Themes; Round Four Themes; Round Five Themes.
The theme challenge is by no means mandatory, although we hope that it'll provide you with inspiration for your writing.
For inclusion in the theme challenge, your submission must list each theme you used. Both the author that earns the most points for a single fic and the one who earns the most points overall win be eligible for a prize. However, the winner of the theme challenge will not necessarily be the person who uses the most themes, so please don't feel obliged to cram in as many themes as you can. Rather, we hope that you will take a group of themes that you find interesting and use them to write a great story.
We will be judging your theme usage on the following criteria:
1. Frequency: how often is the theme explicitly (or implicitly) referenced in the story
2. Accuracy: how accurately has the theme been used
3. Purpose: how integral is the theme to the story
4. Execution: how smoothly the theme has been incorporated into the story
5. Creativity: how creatively the theme has been interpreted
For each theme you include in your submission, we will assign a point value from 1 to 5 for each of the above criteria. All the points for all the themes will be added up, and the writer with the highest number of points will be awarded a prize for their efforts. Since we realize that all of these criteria are highly subjective, the three mods will do their evaluations independently and take the average to determine the point totals.