[MOD] Challenges and Themes
Challenges
"You must gain balance within yourself before you can bring balance to the world. And the first step to gaining balance begins with this. Drink up!"
As you can see, you have many, many options to choose from. However, there are two overarching challenges:
• Duality: Your two works MUST be connected and MUST contrast with each other in some way, be it mood, tone, subject matter, etc. Whether they end up showing a similarity between the two themes or highlighting their differences-or something else-is up to you.
• Individual Challenge: These function the same way as other writing challenge communities. Each word or phrase is just a prompt that you can use to inspire your writing. The first set relates to what opens the chakra; the second, what closes it; the third, a mixture of the two.
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Earth
"Aang, your vision is not real. You are concerned for your survival, but you must surrender those fears. Let your fears flow down the creek."
Challenge: Duality
1 Survival
2 Fear
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Chasm
1 struggle
2 we are all animals
3 no way out
4 overcome
5 still breathing
6 i have to do this
7 the last one standing
Theme Set: Groundless
1 claustrophobia
2 falling
3 choke
4 i don't want to lose you
5 insect
6 unknown
7 endless
Theme Set: Mountain
1 holding my breath
2 i don't know about this
3 if only i...
4 there must be another way
5 hold me
6 open my eyes
7 too late
Water
"This chakra deals with pleasure, and is blocked by guilt. Now, look at all the guilt which burdens you so. What do you blame yourself for?"
Challenge: Duality
1 Pleasure
2 Guilt
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Spring Rain
1 i'm happy
2 watching the clouds
3 lazy day
4 dandelion
5 favorite food
6 smile; laugh
7 lame joke; pun
Theme Set: Drought
1 i'm sorry
2 i wish i hadn't...
3 nightmare
4 it was for your own good
5 if only i'd known earlier
6 lash out
7 there's nothing wrong
Theme Set: Tide
1 shh!
2 i hope they don't find out
3 little white lie
4 nervous laugh
5 what are you talking about?
6 hiding something
7 they'll never know
Fire
"This chakra deals with willpower and is blocked by shame. What are you ashamed of? What are your biggest disappointments?"
Challenge: Duality
1 Willpower
2 Shame
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Blaze
1 even if it kills me
2 eyes squeezed shut
3 i won't give up
4 passion
5 don't procrastinate
6 goal
7 swan song
Theme Set: Ashes
1 dirty little secret
2 shut up!
3 that never happened
4 not sorry enough
5 i wish i could tell you...
6 embarrassed
7 you don't need to know
Theme Set: Smoldering
1 they'll laugh at me!
2 i can't
3 shaking; trembling
4 shameless
5 this will go down in history
6 spontaneous combustion
7 no
Air
"The fourth chakra is located in the heart. It deals with love, and is blocked by grief. Lay all your grief out in front of you."
Challenge: Duality
1 Love
2 Grief
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Breeze
1 butterflies
2 anything for you
3 under the stars
4 mother; father
5 cradle
6 sweet; comfort
7 kiss
Theme Set: Still
1 casualties
2 last words
3 tears
4 torn asunder
5 i still think of you
6 ghost
7 can't go on without you
Theme Set: Tempest
1 i can't have you
2 distance
3 broken heart
4 last time
5 would you like me if...?
6 regrets
7 not dead
Sound
"The fifth in the chain is the sound chakra, located in the throat. It deals with truth, and is blocked by lies. The ones we tell ourselves."
Challenge: Duality
1 Truth
2 Lies
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Noise
1 no one knows but us
2 i don't know how to explain it
3 nothing else
4 don't listen to them
5 acceptance
6 because; proof
7 oath; i swear; promise
Theme Set: Silence
1 blind
2 spoon-fed
3 so-called 'truths'
4 poker face
5 do you believe me?
6 snowball effect
7 too many times
Theme Set: Whispers
1 i don't want to hear it
2 make-believe
3 maybe
4 a fine line
5 the boy who cried wolf
6 understanding
7 they've become truth
Light
"The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same."
Challenge: Duality
1 Insight
2 Illusion
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Light
1 meditation
2 something i never knew
3 united
4 solitude
5 soliloquy
6 not alone
7 coming to terms with myself
Theme Set: Darkness
1 so they say...
2 don quixote; candide
3 it's all a dream
4 it's not going to happen
5 once upon a time
6 clouded
7 wake up
Theme Set: Dim
1 between dream and reality
2 overwhelmed
3 finding myself; lost
4 oppressed
5 murky
6 escape
7 end of childhood
Thought
"Meditate on what attaches you to this world. Now, let all of those attachments go. Let them flow down the river. Forgotten. "
Challenge: Duality
1 Pure cosmic energy
2 Earthly attachment
Challenge: Individual Themes
Theme Set: Heavenly
1 father time
2 supernova
3 orbit; revolution
4 afterward
5 do you believe in...?
6 platonic
7 enlightenment
Theme Set: Earthly
1 mother nature
2 materialism
3 green
4 rain; mud
5 humble
6 wheat; grain; corn
7 no place like home
Theme Set: Limbo
1 purgatory
2 spider's web
3 clairvoyance; supernatural
4 charity
5 don't leave
6 out-of-body experience
7 let's go
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