[HCC/Meta] High Concept Challenge #56 : Sheep
Saxon Brenton
saxonbrenton at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 19 20:15:17 PDT 2015
I've just spent the morning trying to update the running list of High
Concept topics, because man it is getting hard to remember what's
already been used.
But anyway, after a bit of thought, I believe I shall declare High
Concept Challenge #56 to be: Sheep.
Interpret that as broadly or as narrowly as you wish. The animal.
The insult of being a mindless conformist. Any phrases, like 'being
sheepish', 'A wolf in sheep's clothing' or 'Lions lying down with
lambs'.
Deadline in the usual period of three-ish weeks, so let's make it the
14th October 2015.
Go play. Have fun.
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And for archival completeness, behold the fruits of my mornings labour:
The Running List of High Concept Challenge topics.
2009
01 - 'The Forgotten Man'
02 - Superhuman worried about kids; uplifted but
non-anthropomorphic animals
03 - Talking to animals
04 - Kitbashing
05 - Anachronoid
2010
06 - "When the Earth becomes infested with hardwired aliens, one
Earthling and his/her chocolate respond by swimming."
07 - Olympics
08 - Opposites
09 - The Red Planet
10 - The Immigrant Experience
11 - Death traps
12 - Under the weather
13 - A legacy reclaimed
14 - Surprisingly awesome animal hero
15 - The new job / Subterranean world
16 - The epic poem
2011
17 - Zombies
18 - Unicorn / sasquatch war
19 - 'What is the secret of the silver skull machine?'
20 - Behind blue eyes
21 - Summer blockbuster!
22 - Someone else's characters
23 - Mythrepresentation
24 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
25 - Le challenge French
26 - 24 minute challenge
2012
27 - The element of surprise
28 - The last place you'd think to look
29 - 'Recast In the name Of good, ye not guilty'
30 - 'The Challenge From Before' : Legion of Net.Heroes #50
collaboration
31 - Big monster battle
32 - Lateness : in the running behind schedule sense
33 - (Neo)Edwardian comedy of manners and/or an apocalyptic
Christian rapture
34 - Working class hero
2013
35 - Ruined forever!
36 - Secret identity discovered
36.5 One minute origin : brief and distilled origin story for a hero
37 - Collaboration challenge : story produced in collaboration with
another writer
38 - Super-pets
39 - Movie plot mash-ups : a combination of three different movie plots
40 - Missing adventures
41 - 'Christmas, with all its ancient horrors'
2014
42 - Beyond the walls of genre
43 - The Eruption of the fantastic into the mundane
44 - Back from the dead
45 - An awkward situation
46 - Waiting For the bus in the rain : challenge of public transport
47 - Team-up
48 - A whole 'nuther country
49 - Slice of life : Two or more genre characters share a pizza, and
nothing happens
50 - An anniversary celebration
2015
51 - 'The truth about my identity'
52 - Shipping : in the fandom sense, not the commerce sense
53 - Gender defenders
54 - 'Neon Talking Super Street Bat-Luge' : insert an element to
promote a tie-in line of toys
55 - 'Required elements' : a specific prop, line of dialog, character,
animal, and location
56 - Sheep
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Saxon Brenton
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