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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.
clover71: (Default)

[personal profile] clover71 2017-06-18 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)

Sept 10 please

question... if I plan to write 2 stories, do I have to choose 2 separate dates or can I post on the same day?
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[personal profile] random_nexus 2017-06-18 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Still trying to finish my last UC fic, so not signing up this year, but I have done my part and pimped the comm out on Tumblr and will be doing the same on my own blog shortly.

Thank you for doing this! \o/
Edited 2017-06-18 23:35 (UTC)
vexed_wench: (SGA - John/Rodney)

[personal profile] vexed_wench 2017-06-19 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Please

14th September

73) Society Page Seduction – Maureen Child

Stargate Atlantis

Thank you
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[personal profile] samuraiter 2017-06-19 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on five straight years of [community profile] unconventionalcourtship!

That being said, I'd like to volunteer for September 3. And here is what the prompt generator gave me (slightly edited):

235.) Flirting with the Forbidden by Joss Wood

He can look ... but he's not supposed to touch!

Bodyguard Laslow hasn't seen diamond heiress Serra for eight years — but the image of her naked body has been imprinted on his mind ever since! The sexy socialite was totally off-limits, and it took every ounce of Laslow's iron control to walk away.

Now, he's been hired to protect her again, so picking up where they left off definitely isn't an option. But Laslow's body doesn't seem to have got the memo — keeping his hands off Serra is a 24/7 battle! And how can he resist the forbidden when giving in is so irresistibly tempting?
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[personal profile] sidhe_faerie 2017-06-19 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like Sept 17 please/

I havent picked a summary yet but ( will go take a look now.
callmesandyk: (not exactly)

[personal profile] callmesandyk 2017-06-19 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
September 12th, please?

Pacey/Joey, dawson's creek and this prompt:
241) Under the Sheriff's Protection - Delores Fossen

Sheriff Rico Geary is having a bad day—two people were found murdered in his town, and the only witness claims to have amnesia. He takes one look at the witness and realizes she's none other than Gina Blake. His estranged wife.
But there's no time to find out what Gina is doing in Maverick Springs. Or why she left him so suddenly and disappeared. Because the killer isn't finished in Maverick Springs, and unless Rico Geary can protect her, Gina will be the murderer's next victim
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[personal profile] spikesgirl58 2017-06-19 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to play!

Man from UNCLE Napoleon/Illya

93) MATTERS OF SEDUCTION by AMANDA STEVENS
Silhouette Intrigue
Inhibited agent turns wanton woman!
Special Agent Donna Noble was anxious to leave her desk job and get out in the field, but her all-too-beautiful boss, Bill Potts, denied each request she made. So when the opportunity to catch a cunning serial killer arose, Donna would do anything to prove herself. She’d even strip off her plain Jane persona and pose as a seductive temptress in the hopes of luring out the murderer.
Instead, she unleashed an even more dangerous scenario between her and her boss. Though taking on the elusive killer threatened her life would falling in love with Bill be the greatest risk of all?

May I have August 31st, please?
Edited 2017-06-19 17:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] angenoir 2017-06-20 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be using a modified version of this book summary: https://www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9781426822025_deadly-redemption.html

Fandom: MCU

And I'd like to have September 10th as a posting date!
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[personal profile] puimoo 2017-06-20 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
7th of September please!

And, ooh. Could you please randomly assign me two? Because the randomness sounds like a LOT of fun!
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[personal profile] dimity_blue 2017-06-20 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never done this before but I'll give it a go.

September 12th, if it's still available.
Edited 2017-06-20 14:55 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dimity_blue 2017-06-20 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The 11th is fine with me. I didn't see that the 12th was taken.

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