Unconventional Courtship 2018

[aralias]

Welcome to 'Unconventional Courtship 2018'!



'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 2018.

This year we are also welcoming a co-mod in the form of tidal_race!

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 us which summary/pairing you're going with, but you don't have to. You can also ask us 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 us 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 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 if you want!

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 (even better) tidal_race. 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:

<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 or tidal_race 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 it is possible for you to sign up for a day that nobody else is interested in then that'd be best of all.

1 Aug: out_there
2 Aug: georgewashington
3 Aug: killaurey
4 Aug: raininshadows,
5 Aug: paranoidangel
6 Aug:
7 Aug: somehowunbroken
8 Aug: anoyo
9 Aug: innie_darling
10 Aug: gingayellow
11 Aug: merryghoul
12 Aug: meilan_firaga
13 Aug: estirose
14 Aug: navaan
15 Aug: samuraiter, ella_rose88
16 Aug: tigerlily, auroracloud
17 Aug: cestlamorte
18 Aug: sunrises, queso_amigo
19 Aug: celeste9
20 Aug: vilakins
21 Aug: apgeeksout
22 Aug: plaid_slytherin
23 Aug: devilswings
24 Aug: saiditallbefore
25 Aug: storyspinner70
26 Aug: vexed_wench, lordoflions
27 Aug: artemis10002000
28 Aug: luvbarryfefe,
29 Aug: sidhe_faerie meridian_rose
30 Aug: misslucyjane, 238900mi
31 Aug: liadt, rudigersmooch


If you have questions, feel free to ask! And/or consult the FAQs.

Comments

[aralias]

awesome! i love time travel and crack fic :D

Need a reset

[wendelah1]

Alas, I am not going to be able to write my original prompt. Season two of Timeless ruined the pairing I was planning to write--and then the series got cancelled. I thought I could get past it but it has been weeks since the show ended and I still can't get over what they did to Wyatt and Lucy. I might try writing it later as a gen adventure fic, but that's not in the spirit of unconventionalcourtship.

I've been looking for another prompt to write for a different couple, preferably one I still actually ship.

Would this work as an alternative? I found "Fade to Black" on Goodreads, but I think it's from a paranormal romance/detective series. I hope I can play a bit with the concept, make it amusing.


...where dreams go to die


Starring in a cult TV show was a blessing for Marnie Davante David Duchovny, especially now that his former fame could support herhis futuredream of starting a children's theater of writing the Great American Novel. So he’ll work the convention circuit, and keep those residuals rolling in. But then a former costar is brazenly murdered in front of her him. With a killer who vanishes into thin air with seemingly inhuman skill, and strange events plaguing David, she feels she can’t even trust herhis own senses.

Although his her dear departed parents were famous actors both worked in the industry, PI Gillian Anderson is about as far from Hollywood as you can get. The former military man police detective is reluctant to get involved in such a bizarre case. butWhen it quickly becomes obvious that David is in grave danger, andshe is compelled to help. It’s unclear if the killer is an obsessed fan—or something far more sinister. Could the show’s cast be cursed? How can Gillian keep David safe when it becomes apparent there’s a force determined to make this his final curtain call?

The fandom is The X-Files RPF. Oh, and I gender-swapped the prompt.

Re: Need a reset

[aralias]

Season two of Timeless ruined the pairing I was planning to write--and then the series got cancelled.

what a bummer.

yes - new prompt is fine! good luck

Re: Need a reset

[wendelah1]

I am officially withdrawing. I ended up with a 2,800 word prologue and around 8,000 words of cute scenes in dire need of a plot... There is no way this is getting done by Friday.

But at least I'm writing, which is never a bad thing.

Thanks for running this challenge. I'll definitely give it another go if you run it next year.

Re: Need a reset

[aralias]

that's fine - if you finish later and want to post on the comm, you're welcome to do so!

glad you wrote so much, even if you didn't finish the fic!