Mini-Round 5 Theme Challenge
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MINI-ROUND FIVE THEME LIST
(Note that there are no sets here, so you can mix and match whatever you'd like, if you'd like.)
Music Options!
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Quote Options!
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
⛄ Edith Sitwell
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
⛄ John Steinbeck
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
⛄ Patricia Briggs
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
⛄ George R.R. Martin
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
⛄ Carl Reiner
“She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.”
⛄ Maggie Stiefvater
“Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.”
⛄ Robert Byrne
“Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.”
⛄ Marina Endicott
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
⛄ Pietro Aretino
"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
⛄ Earl Wilson
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
⛄ Jeff Valdez
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The theme challenge is completely voluntary, intended for fun and stimulation.
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.
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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.
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Remember, sign ups are on DW, and we're looking forward to you signing up! Alternatively, we're super psyched you did sign up! FIGHT-OH!
MINI-ROUND FIVE THEME LIST
(Note that there are no sets here, so you can mix and match whatever you'd like, if you'd like.)
Music Options!
Picture Options!
Quote Options!
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
⛄ Edith Sitwell
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
⛄ John Steinbeck
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
⛄ Patricia Briggs
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
⛄ George R.R. Martin
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
⛄ Carl Reiner
“She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.”
⛄ Maggie Stiefvater
“Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.”
⛄ Robert Byrne
“Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.”
⛄ Marina Endicott
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
⛄ Pietro Aretino
"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
⛄ Earl Wilson
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
⛄ Jeff Valdez
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The theme challenge is completely voluntary, intended for fun and stimulation.
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.
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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.
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Remember, sign ups are on DW, and we're looking forward to you signing up! Alternatively, we're super psyched you did sign up! FIGHT-OH!
