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Originally Posted by zygote

you have a big theme that connects all the weekly topics and then each individual match-up is a slight variation on that big theme. (E.g., The dead presidents week - had all the different quotes. The graffiti week produced a lot of surprisingly varied and excellent submissions as well. Even MikeWrecka's infamous 'colored square' week was alright in that sense!) With this method of stimulus allocation you give an option for the writer to focus in on their individual topic or to expand more onto the larger theme.

Also, specifically for picture topics. I'm sure it can be great fun to grab all these fantasy-like pictures from whatever art-school emo with autism and suicidal tendencies deviant-art page you can find, but consider using more normal pictures perhaps?Even if it's just as a change of pace. I mean when you have a picture of a unicorn ridden by some knight atop a castle with a rainbow skull for a face, it kind of limits your options in a way. It's easier to write fantasy stuff if you want to about a normal picture, but it's pretty difficult to write normal stuff about a fantasy picture.