I do love this challenge as it does give you so much freedom. You are right, though. I read some of those synopsis and just shake my head. And people are being paid for this stuff...
I agree. When I worked in a bookstore, there were women who would line up for the new shipment. We wouldn't even put them on the shelves. We'd line them up on the floor. These ladies were focused and very loyal.
Exactly! There are some challenges where they strip all the fun out of it being piling on rule after rule. This one is freeing.
You're definitely not the only Public Eye fan. It's quite popular over at the Mausoleum Club.
I'm loving all the mock-up Mills & Boon covers, and the ficathon does seem like fun. Dear god, those plot synopses though. Reading through them, I can feel my brain cease to function. Even allowing for my romance allergy, they're terrible. Far be it for me to knock other people's reading choices, but argh. But! Frank Marker is clearly what Mills & Boon has been crying out for all these years. You'll make it all better with his horrible weather, his A-Zs and (descriptions of) his face. Good luck!
Yes, I know. I shouldn't exaggerate for comic effect, but I will do it. There's even a fan website with a forum, but I'm scared of places like that. I haven't explored this one, but they do have a tendency to be Terribly Serious and be Wrong About Everything (obv.). I also suspect other PE fans would rightly horrified at the idea of anyone writing Frank/Helen M&B summary fanfic. I'll just hope I continue to go under the radar here... *looks guilty*
It is a fun ficathon! And, yes, each to their own, and I doubt anybody takes the things seriously, but... the summaries do have a tendency to make my brains fall out of my ears as I look at them. They are, however, much improved by inserting random character names and laughing at the results. I found a couple of nice possible Tarrant/Dayna ones. (Oddly, both regency ones, but I forgot to note the numbers down.) Thanks!
'Serious' fans do tend to look down on fanfic. Which is sad, as it's a great creative outlet, and a nice way of getting more from a long gone show. It's a shame that there's so much dreadful stuff out there, as it's given the whole movement a bad name.
I don't think I want to even consider Tarrant & Dayna M&B! Their brand of romance mostly involves insulting each other, and blowing stuff up. Poor Dayna would be greatly insulted if she found herself in a typical romance heroine's shoes. Although I suppose there would be plenty of opportunity for subversion of expectations. And blowing stuff up.
The ones I found had a housekeeper who was secretly a smuggler causing a strait-laced Captain some headaches, and in the other a highwayman who was secretly a girl, so, yep, definitely options for at least violence and primitive weapons if not necessarily explosions. And you don't have to pay any attention to the genders the summary goes for, either. :-D
Well, as to fanfic, the internet is like that - anybody can post anything, it's the joy and the curse of it. And since that relates to just about any content on it, it's rather silly to automatically despise fanfic if you don't also despise the whole internet for the same reason.
Smaug’s life might be quiet, and lived in a secluded [mountain] village, but that’s essential if he’s to put his turbulent past behind him. However, his new-found stability is threatened with the arrival of a Balrog...
The Balrog is tall, dark and...dangerous - and he wants virginal Smaug. His touch leaves Smaug aching for more, but he knows he’d be playing with fire. And there are just some things that he can’t tell him without opening a can of worms.
But how long can he resist the Balrog’s brand of searing, exotic seduction...?
Thank you! And, aw, I know I go on about things, but I know most people wouldn't want to watch them, not really! I don't know if this one'd be your thing at all. (If you like Enemy at the Door when you get round to it, maybe. If you don't go for that, probably not!)
But why no kisses of fire? Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! What, not even the 'it was all a dream' type, with 'em waking up drooling over each other in the backseat of the snowed-in car (in the early morning gummy-eyed way, not the lusty desirous way.)
Poor Frank, you are enjoying giving him such a hard time right?
Because I die of embarrassment when trying to write any sort of smut? Also because I foolishly picked a summary that had a baby in it. I don't know what M&B people are on, but somehow I don't see the presence of a baby as likely to encourage fiery kissing as much as reluctant nappy changing.
Anyway, it's not finished yet. There could be a non-fiery kiss, you never know. ;-)
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And, yes, it is a fun challenge, and I'm very grateful that it isn't prescriptive about how you use the summaries, or I'd never be able to play!
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Exactly! There are some challenges where they strip all the fun out of it being piling on rule after rule. This one is freeing.
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I'm loving all the mock-up Mills & Boon covers, and the ficathon does seem like fun. Dear god, those plot synopses though. Reading through them, I can feel my brain cease to function. Even allowing for my romance allergy, they're terrible. Far be it for me to knock other people's reading choices, but argh. But! Frank Marker is clearly what Mills & Boon has been crying out for all these years. You'll make it all better with his horrible weather, his A-Zs and (descriptions of) his face. Good luck!
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It is a fun ficathon! And, yes, each to their own, and I doubt anybody takes the things seriously, but... the summaries do have a tendency to make my brains fall out of my ears as I look at them. They are, however, much improved by inserting random character names and laughing at the results. I found a couple of nice possible Tarrant/Dayna ones. (Oddly, both regency ones, but I forgot to note the numbers down.) Thanks!
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I don't think I want to even consider Tarrant & Dayna M&B! Their brand of romance mostly involves insulting each other, and blowing stuff up. Poor Dayna would be greatly insulted if she found herself in a typical romance heroine's shoes. Although I suppose there would be plenty of opportunity for subversion of expectations. And blowing stuff up.
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Well, as to fanfic, the internet is like that - anybody can post anything, it's the joy and the curse of it. And since that relates to just about any content on it, it's rather silly to automatically despise fanfic if you don't also despise the whole internet for the same reason.
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1)THE VIRGIN'S SEDUCTION by ANNE MATHER
Smaug’s life might be quiet, and lived in a secluded [mountain] village, but that’s essential if he’s to put his turbulent past behind him. However, his new-found stability is threatened with the arrival of a Balrog...
The Balrog is tall, dark and...dangerous - and he wants virginal Smaug. His touch leaves Smaug aching for more, but he knows he’d be playing with fire. And there are just some things that he can’t tell him without opening a can of worms.
But how long can he resist the Balrog’s brand of searing, exotic seduction...?
(SORRY.)
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Write it! I daaaare you.
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Have fun with your ficathon.
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Poor Frank, you are enjoying giving him such a hard time right?
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Anyway, it's not finished yet. There could be a non-fiery kiss, you never know. ;-)
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