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The Triangulation Challenge:
The Rules
1. The writer picks three webcomics; the writer can use any criteria they want for picking them. One technique, for instance, is to have a friend pick them for you.
2. Using the three webcomics as a reference, the writer invents a Grand Theory of Webcomics, i.e., a theory of some sort that seemingly applies to many other webcomics.
3. The writer should invent the theory only after picking the three comics.
4. It is permissible for the theory to be impossible, satirical, surreal, or completely sincere.
5. The theory need not be specific to webcomics.
6. The writer should give the theory a name.
7. The writer need not believe the theory, but in the essay should play the devils advocate and defend it to the hilt.
8. The length of the essay is entirely dependent on what the writer needs to explain. It could be only a few paragraphs, or it could be several thousand words.
9. The first draft of the essay must be completed within two hours. Polishing, embellishing, and looking up references may be done afterwards. Any amount of polishing and embellishing is allowed after the two hours, but the basic idea should emerge from the two-hour brainstorm.
10. The winner of the competition is the writer who comes up with the most useful theory, “useful” being a highly subjective term.
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