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aralias ([personal profile] aralias) wrote in [community profile] unconventionalcourtship2017-06-17 09:57 am
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Unconventional Courtship 2017

It's late, but it's back -

Welcome to 'Unconventional Courtship 2017'!



'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 August and September 2017, from 18th August.

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 can also ask me to assign you a summary, if you want. (You don't need a Dreamwidth to play - just comment with OpenID, although you will need to ask me to post your fic on the com. If you are on DW, please follow the community!)

2. Choose a M&B/Harlequin summary (or two etc) - we have hundreds of suggestions here, but there are literally thousands. Our prompt generator may also help (thank you [personal profile] john_amend_all) 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.

4.5. Pimp the fest far and wide. I'm hardly going to do this at all, so it's up to you - the players! I've re-uploaded the make-your-own banners and of course you can use any that I've already made (N.B. Historically our banners were at Photobucket. I've re-uploaded to this post, but you should still see a lot of dead links around the place). Please do pimp where ever you think would be appropriate.

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

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

You can see some examples of Unconventional Courtship fic by looking through the collection, or earlier in the com.

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 1,000 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 - the AO3 share function is fine) when you post to the community:



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. [community profile] trope_bingo

7. You can sign up for any day you like, but if it is possible for you to sign up for a day that nobody else is interested in then that'd be best of all.

18 Aug: [personal profile] meridian_rose
19 Aug: [personal profile] merryghoul
20 Aug: [personal profile] mara
21 Aug: [personal profile] lobeliakurgan
22 Aug: [personal profile] out_there
23 Aug
24 Aug
25 Aug
26 Aug: [personal profile] romanajo123
27 Aug: [personal profile] out_there
28 Aug
29 Aug
30 Aug
31 Aug: [personal profile] spikesgirl58
1 Sept: [profile] lauramoon
2 Sept: [personal profile] pameluke
3 Sept: [personal profile] samuraiter
4 Sept: [personal profile] vilakins
5 Sept: [personal profile] desertvixen
6 Sept: [personal profile] paranoidangel
7 Sept: [personal profile] puimoo
8 Sept: [personal profile] still_lycoris
9 Sept: [personal profile] melissatreglia, [personal profile] goddess47
10 Sept: [personal profile] clover71, [personal profile] angenoir
11 Sept: [personal profile] dimity_blue, [personal profile] misaffection
12 Sept: [personal profile] callmesandyk, [personal profile] aflaminghalo
13 Sept: [personal profile] fennui, [personal profile] luvbarryfefe
14 Sept: [personal profile] starticker, [personal profile] vexed_wench, [personal profile] lbilover
15 Sept: [personal profile] tardiscompanion, [personal profile] wendelah1
16 Sept: [personal profile] liadt, [personal profile] lilly_c
17 Sept: [personal profile] misslucyjane, [personal profile] sidhe_faerie


If you have questions, feel free to ask! And/or consult the FAQs from last year, which are still mostly accurate.
out_there: B-Day Present '05 (Default)

[personal profile] out_there 2017-06-21 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
August 27 (to space out the entries a little).

I'm thinking 253) BAD BRIDESMAID, Sherlock fandom (Mycroft/Lestrade).

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[personal profile] desertvixen 2017-06-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)

I'd like to do The Wolfe's Mate by Paula Marshall.
Fandom undetermined
September 5 posting date, please!

Summary: Unbeknownst to Miss Susanna Beverly, her stepfather had cheated her out of her rightful inheritance. Thus she was forced to become the companion of Miss Amelia Western, who was betrothed to Viscount Darlington. Who would have guessed she'd be mistaken for Amelia and kidnapped by Mr. Ben Wolfe's henchmen!

Ben's intentions were honorable. He did at least intend to marry Amelia. But his real aim was revenge upon Darlington's family.

Kidnapping the wrong woman upset all his plans, but as Ben got to know the forthright Susanna, he couldn't really admit to being sorry….
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[personal profile] paranoidangel 2017-06-22 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Please can I have 6th September? I'm going to be writing this one:

Night of the Living Wed by Michele Hauf
Dayna Mellanby and Del Tarrant's evening turns deadly when some uninvited guests show up at their friend's party — a horde of hungry zombies. The couple is in a fight for their lives when a new, heroic side of Tarrant emerges, and he vows to protect Dayna no matter the cost….
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[personal profile] vilakins 2017-06-23 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still considering this as I have to specify the plot. I do have a few shortlisted though. :-)
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[personal profile] gehayi 2017-06-29 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Out of curiosity, would it be okay to use summaries from LGBTQ publishing houses (like Carina Press, which started as Harlequin's same-sex imprint, or Less Than Three Press, or Dreamspinner Press)?
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[personal profile] aflaminghalo 2017-06-30 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi,

Can I take the 8th September please?

Fandon - DCU Bruce/Dick.
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[personal profile] aflaminghalo 2017-07-05 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, did I post this right? DW was a little strange about it.

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[personal profile] vilakins 2017-07-02 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
OK, 4 September

This one will be a third Jenna Stannis PI fic. Because they're fun to write.

84) HIRED TO PROTECT
More than just one night...
It must have been the cold and misery of Gauda Prime that drove free trader Jenna Stannis into the arms of rebel leader Roj Blake. After all, she’d gone to GP on business and wound up basking in pleasure.
Their attraction was intense, but she knew Blake's past would keep him from pledging his heart. Still, she didn’t expect to wake up one morning and find him gone without a trace.
Nor could she predict that, two years later, she would be hired to protect the very man she swore never to forgive.

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[personal profile] romanajo123 2017-07-02 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never done this before but thought I'd try it out.
26th August. Fandom: Doctor Who. Scenario not yet determined.

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[personal profile] wendelah1 2017-07-02 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Assuming you approve my prompt, since I have another story due the end of August, may I have September 15?

My idea takes off from an unfinished Mills and Boon series, Time Raiders. Originally, the series was supposed to be 12 books. After book four it turned into a series of e-published short stories, around 50 pages apiece, and was abandoned altogether by the publisher at book 8.

Fifty thousand years ago, after discovering that human females carried a nascent genetic potential that might one day develop into the ability to star navigate, The Pleiadian Council planted a dozen pieces of a bronze disk across the Earth, hidden in darkness until mankind advances enough to travel through time and find them.

And then, out of the ashes of the mystery-shrouded Roswell Alien crash in 1947 arose a secret research project called Anasazi. Its improbable goal: learn to use the recovered alien technology for the purposes of time travel. General Beverly Ashton was the last to command this project before a dozen time travelers were inexplicably lost and the project disbanded.

However, the recent discovery of an ancient journal, known as the Ad Astra, has given Professor Athena Carswell the information she needs to begin sending modern time travelers back through human history in search of the twelve pieces of the Pleiadian medallion which, when fully reassembled, will send a signal to the Council indicating mankind is ready to be introduced to the rest of the galactic community.

Project Anasazi has secretly been reactivated, and General Ashton, now retired, and Professor Carswell are continuing the project’s work. They are carefully recruiting and training a team of military men and women to make the dangerous time jumps.

But threats loom on the horizon, both from humans who would see the project ended, or worse, steal its work and use it for nefarious ends, and from the Centauri Federation, which will do anything to stop humans from learning how to navigate the stars.


Is this not the crackiest romance premise ever? Time travel! Two competing alien alliances! Alien artifacts hidden by one of them in the depths of history! ROSWELL! ROSWELL! Here is my idea: I want to finish the series by transferring it into the universe of Timeless. "Project Anasazi" was shut down once before and resurrected, why can't it happen again, especially given that the book series was never finished?

I've been searching high and low for a romance summary that will work with my fandom. When I stumbled upon this one at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, I knew I had hit pay dirt. I don't have to leave my favorite character, Rufus, out of the story. I can still write a slow burn romance for Wyatt and Lucy. (I can even give the Timeless team a break and write one story as a crossover with The X-Files and send Mulder and Scully back to retrieve one of the artifacts.)

Obviously, I'm not going to write four of these by my posting date. Given my track record, I won't finish the first one until 2020. If you don't think this idea fits with the goals of [community profile] unconventionalcourtship, I understand completely.

What do you say? Am I in or am I out?

Also, the make your own banner thingie has disappeared.
Edited (add something) 2017-07-02 20:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] still_lycoris 2017-07-03 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I nearly forgot this! Can I have 8th September please? It will be an X-Men fic, probably Charles/Hank, still sorting through prompts. :)
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[personal profile] lobeliakurgan 2017-07-04 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey! I'd like to sign up for August 21st. (That list is a little bottom-heavy right now.)

Fandom's Fire Emblem: Awakening, pairing is Tharja/Chrom, blurb is #154, "The Prince Who Charmed Her."

I'll definitely be switching some job titles around, and they'll be on a warship instead of a cruise, but I think it checks out.
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[personal profile] tidal_race 2017-07-23 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Just a heads up, I was going to try making some covers to promote this and it seems like nothing is working graphics wise right now?

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[personal profile] luvbarryfefe 2017-08-03 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's not too late, I'd really like to join in the fun!

Please sign me up for September 13th. The book summary I am *thinking* of basing mine on is Phantom Lover by Rebecca York.

Fandom: General Hospital

lol
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[personal profile] tidal_race 2017-08-13 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Kind of random, but...do you think maybe there could be a sort of general chatter post for the round? For people to talk about things like how they're doing, their favorite romance novel tropes, any sort of misc. stuff like that?

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