Plot suggestions

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Obviously you can go straight to the official sites for plot summaries to steal-

Mills & Boon
Harlequin

- but if you'd prefer we have hundreds of plot suggestions listed for you here.

If you've played this fest before, you may be interested to know new summaries (i.e. those you haven't seen before) start from about 150 onwards. Apologies if there is any duplication.

A good proportion of these prompts (and some others not featured here!) can also be found in the UC generator, which boasts lots of new features including the ability to customise it with the characters of your choice!

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How to Play/Sign-up Post

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'Unconventional Courtship' is a panfandom fic fest where you write and post a 1000w+ fic based on a M&B/Harlequin plot. Fics will be posted to this community, staggered through March 15th-April 14th 2013.

How to play:

It's as simple as:

1. Sign up! All you need to do is comment on this post with the day you want to post your fic. You can tell me which summary/pairing you're going with, but you don't have to. (You don't need a Dreamwidth to play - just comment with OpenID. If you are on DW, please follow the community!)

2. Choose a M&B/Harlequin summary (or two etc) - we have a few suggestions here, but there are literally thousands. You can write more than one fic if you want. You can also combine prompts, if you like.

3. Replace the names (and pronouns if necessary) with the names (and pronouns) of the pairing of your choice. Any any all fandoms and pairings are welcome in this fest.

You can also replace place names and jobs as long as you keep to the spirit of the prompt. So, if you want to write Kirk/Spock, but you don't want to write a modern day AU, you could replace 'the Sahara desert' with 'a desert planet' and Kirk wouldn't need to be the boss at a law firm, he could be the boss... in the sense that he's the captain.

4. Write a fic based on your altered summary. You can take the prompt seriously or use it as an improbable basis for lols.

5. Post the fic to this community on your assigned day. Use the header provided.

You can also post to our AO3 collection, but please post to the com whatever you do, and please post to the com first.

6. Profit! Fics for all! I'll post a masterlist once all the entries are in. Crossposting is encouraged.

Any questions? Leave a comment or PM me or email me at heroic.tendencies@gmail.com


Rules:

1. All fics must be over 1000 words long.

2. You must use a modified Mills & Boon and/or Harlequin summary.

3. You don't have to use a beta, but it is strongly advised.

4. Please use the following header (or similar) when you post to the community:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Fandom:</b> <b>Pairing/Characters:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Length:</b> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Notes:</b> <b>Link:</b>

5. Please post on your assigned day. If you can't for whatever reason, please let me know either by PM or email heroic.tendencies@gmail.com

6. You can use this fic for another challenge i.e. trope_bingo.

7. You can sign-up for any day you like, but if you can sign up for a day that only one or two people are already interested in, that'd be best of all.

( Days for posting )

Some banners with which to pimp the com

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If you have Photoshop, you can also easily make your own! I've uploaded the bases for my mutilated M&B covers here. Just download and put the photo of your choice on the bottom layer (I added more yellow and more red in Image>Variations, but you don't have to). And/or you can send me a link to a picture and I'm very happy to mock up whatever.

Please do pimp the com, if you can. Particularly in places (Tumblr and Twitter) or fandoms that I'm not active on/in. I want to bring in as many people as possible for only thus will as much exciting, different and excellent stuff be produced as is possible.

P.S. There are plenty more in the comments!