Round Ten Theme Challenge
ROUND TEN THEME LIST
o1. If you cannot succeed, then die gloriously. Chinese proverb
o2. Those who are good at winning, don't usually fight. zhang, 1078 AD
o3. The game plays itself, the players don't control it. Audouard, Pierre
o4. In an unreasonable situation, an unreasonable move is reasonable. Unknown
o5. Only after the tenth punch will you see the fist, and only after the twentieth will you block it. Unknown
o6. I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chuang Tzu
o7. We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Gerald Brenan
o8. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Richard Buckminster Fuller
o9. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
10. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
Additionally, you may make use of any theme previously used, save for the cliché round.
Round Two Themes • Round Three Themes • Round Four Themes • Round Five Themes • Round Six Themes • Round Seven 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 theme or 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, all of the mods will do our evaluations independently and take the average to determine the point totals.
o1. If you cannot succeed, then die gloriously. Chinese proverb
o2. Those who are good at winning, don't usually fight. zhang, 1078 AD
o3. The game plays itself, the players don't control it. Audouard, Pierre
o4. In an unreasonable situation, an unreasonable move is reasonable. Unknown
o5. Only after the tenth punch will you see the fist, and only after the twentieth will you block it. Unknown
o6. I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chuang Tzu
o7. We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Gerald Brenan
o8. There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Richard Buckminster Fuller
o9. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
10. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
Additionally, you may make use of any theme previously used, save for the cliché round.
Round Two Themes • Round Three Themes • Round Four Themes • Round Five Themes • Round Six Themes • Round Seven 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 theme or 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, all of the mods will do our evaluations independently and take the average to determine the point totals.