[HCC/Meta] High Concept Challenge #56 : Sheep
Scott Eiler
seiler at eilertech.com
Sat Sep 19 21:19:11 PDT 2015
On 9/19/2015 8:15 PM, Saxon Brenton wrote:
> 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'.
Hmpf. I suppose I shall sit this one out. I am on track to deliver a
story about a certain other species of herd animal within the contest
period. I could perhaps declare them "sheep". But I have found it does
not attract votes to shoehorn my concepts into the Challenges.
But congratulations, Saxon. Yours is the concept I voted for. 8{D>
Oh, and thanks for the concept list. This is probably worth putting in
the LNH wiki, if it isn't already.
> -----
>
> And for archival completeness, behold the fruits of my morning's 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
>
>
> ---
> Saxon Brenton
>
>
>
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