I'm not entirely sure I agree with the last part either, about romanticising abusive behaviour. I agree completely if it's a traditional romance, but the genre includes more than happily ever after.

The point you made about researching the perspective of the opposite sex applies to more than just sex as well. I've lost count of how many stories I've read with a male protagonist which doesn't feel like a male, at all. This is not limited to fanfiction, the more of a point the author tries to make on politics/sex/etc the more people fit caricatures.

 

Ah, yeah fair, I read through that a little too quickly. I was going to bring up making it seem romantic from a character perspective, but you've already included that. Never mind then haha.

 

Ok, I've been inspired to write for Q4. Hagrid's Dad/Giantess. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fuck Them.

 

I'm not very good at writing romance, and I can't even think of an interesting idea. So, I'll likely just be focusing on nanowrimo.

 

Might write something for this one if a prompt strikes.

 

I've got my rough concept, but it's fighting me tooth and nail when I try to actually write. There are a bunch of different points that I could open from to establish the necessary details for what is going on and why my characters are intended to meet, but recently I'm thinking I should just go In Media Res with it and have the details come in through reminiscence and conversations going forward.

 

Yeah, most likely.

I'll freely admit I fit (1) but not (2) at this point. Can't remember if I was ever seriously entertaining the notion for (2) over the past couple of weeks, but probably not. It would be nice to read something from alternative pairing/POVs though.

 

Sadly I've got absolutely zero time at the moment, hopefully that's going to get better in December.
It's also the reason why I haven't been on IRC lately.

That said, I've got a pretty decent concept (well at least I like it), and I think I might get to write it down at the end of November/early December.

I hope so anyway, because I've only once written anything love-related, and it'll be interesting to see whether I can pull this off anywhere close the way I want to.

 

I was considering something that did not fit both 1 and 2. However, it is a competition.

As I was reminded, no one wants to read about your cool OCs and you are making it more difficult for yourself when you could just slap canon names on and call it AU. Which is a sad state of affairs I suppose, but a sensible one.

 

Oh, I dunno. You could have two sixth- or seventh-year OCs struggling to find one another/survive during the Battle of Hogwarts. Neither of them are on Harry's side or Voldemort's - they're just doing the best they can to first find one another and then survive the chaos.

Bonus points if their actions set up some canon-compliant aid to Harry without them even knowing it.

It's never about ignoring the established story, folks, but bending it into something worth reading.

 

If I do this one, I've a Harry/other concept (a crossover with another popular series) I've been fleshing out, set post-Hogwarts, so you'd get (1), not (2). Generally speaking, the world needs more post-Hogwarts fiction.

 

At least I know I have your vote.