Round 008 Cliché / Theme List

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Sign-ups are now closed. Once again, for this round, you will be expected to write one or more of the cliché themes, and the standard theme prize will instead go to the writer who manages to cram as many clichés as possible into one fic.

Comments

[trixie_chick]

what? no, no, no, there's no ushering into a corner, no hostaging. take a cliche and rework it, take it and make full use for comedy, do whatever you like... many/most of these are quite general and can be applied in lots of different ways, and that's definitely a challenge in and of itself.

you say If the author believe it to be a cliche, but... looking over the list from the brainstorming, there were plenty of things there that were either... not overly common in hikago fandom, or not specific to hikago fandom... i think this is just a question of semantics. the word "cliche" has to mean something to be specifically applied in a challenge of this nature, and to that end, yes, we mods, with input, decided on a 5x5 list that should hopefully be either inspiring or challenging or at least give people room to work, but what you do with the "cliche" is up to you entirely. blast the cliche to bits, or make people laugh with the soap opera... i, personally at least, have confidence that, if nothing else, fandom will prove that it's capable of surprising me. i certainly don't plan to tell people what to write or how to write or what format... heck, i don't even like 'five things' fics in any context, so. =/

i'm really sorry that you are disappointed by this, but it was mentioned in the sign up post that it would be this way, and i truly and deeply hope that it will turn out to not be as confining as you see it now. like i said, many things on this list are very general, and as i told Tari further down in this post, none of these need to be CENTRAL to your plot/story, just something from the list needs to be in it.

i hope that is clearer, or at least explains our thought process here a bit. i hope most of all that you can still enjoy the challenge. and i'm sorry, once again, it was a disappointment to you.