July 22 Prompt Request

[rix_scaedu]

 

In an attempt to get back on the writing bandwagon, I am calling for prompts for this month.  As I've been reading a lot of (British) Regency romances since April 2020, this request is for a historical romance theme, trope, meme, or cliché and the type of setting you would like to see the story in.  I will aim to keep all stories under 1,000 words each - this seems more feasible than 250 words, given my more recent results.

Please do not ask for other sources' characters - I would probably manage to butcher your favourite.  Please do not ask for erotica either.

You may make multiple prompts, and I will write to at least one prompt from every prompter. If you are one of my patrons on Patreon, that will get you an additional prompt written.  I will also write an extra prompt in return for signal boosts, but I will not promise to write more than three boosts for any one prompter.

Last day for prompting will be 25 July 2022.

Comments

[wyste]

A sensible reaction to an arranged marriage.

Setting: a train or train station.

Those can be two prompts or one prompt.

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote Railway Station to your prompt and it can be found at https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/430010.html.

It is also on Live Journal and Patreon but I didn't want to overwhelm you with links.

[tuftears]

I usually prompt with cats, but in this case, I'm going to inquire what you'd do with the typical "Revenge of the Villainess" isekai where someone gets reincarnated into a villainess in the middle of a typical Japanese 'dating sim' otome (aimed at women so the heroine is usually faced with a number of possible love interests and a rival, the villainess, usually affianced with the lead love interest). The villainess usually has motivations drawn from the person who she was before being reincarnated, rather than being actively interested in any of the capture targets, and the settings are generally opulent as befits the typical regency with occasional mention of magic.

Bonus for including mentions of cats, themes, intellectual games like chess. ^.^

[rix_scaedu]

This is going to require plotting just to figure out what's going on, isn't it? :)

[tuftears]

Haha, just a general 'She seems like a villainess but the truth is...' might be all you need. ^.^

[lilfluff]

Hmm...

* I'm not sure what the trope name is, but the one where both parties are in disguise (master and servant swapping clothes and roles, disguised as a different gender, trying to appear a different age, etc.) and neither of the love interests realizes that the other is also disguised. Setting: a country inn

* Dude in Distress (the flip side to damsel in distress), setting: an ocean voyage (which the tablet swipe keyboard wanted to be ocean village)

* Snowed In, setting: an abandoned building during an unusually early blizzard.

[rix_scaedu]

I have written "In Disguise" to your first prompt and it can be found in these locations:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/72733643?pr=true ;

https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/430741.html; and

https://rix-scaedu.livejournal.com/333548.html

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote Isekai to your promt and it can be found here https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/430302.html

It is also on Live Journal and Patreon but I didn't want to overwhelm you with links.

[ellenmillion]

Oh, I love it when you do these! <3

I love friends-to-lovers.

Something with a printing press.

Magical hats.

[rix_scaedu]

After 9,000 words I feel I have reached an endpoint for this piece. I am going to let it sit for a aday or two before I go back and check for coherence, etc.

I may just live with another couple taking over the ending....

[rix_scaedu]

Let it be noted that if I ever manage to write an entire novel, I will need a professional editor. This is only 18 pages....

[rix_scaedu]

I have written It Was All About The Hat to your prompt. Because of the size of the story, I have posted it in three parts. The first section, including links to the subsequent parts can be found in these locations:

https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/431972.html;

https://rix-scaedu.livejournal.com/334633.html; and

https://www.patreon.com/posts/74760516 .

[ellenmillion]

I loved this SO MUCH.

[rix_scaedu]

Thank you!

[zero_pixel_count]

One is of course completely unrecognisable at a masked ball... (I think that's both trope and setting in one)

Passing notes in secret / hot-house gardens

[rix_scaedu]

I have written "At the Masked Ball" to your first prompt and it can be found in these locations:

https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/430943.html;

https://rix-scaedu.livejournal.com/333696.html; and

https://www.patreon.com/posts/74290295?pr=true .

[zero_pixel_count]

Thank you! That's my morning reading sorted...

[rix_scaedu]

You are welcome.

[kelkyag]

Does the Hester and Mungo storyline count as historical romance? Because more please! :)

The protagonist's [horse|hound|cat|ferret|falcon|parrot|...?] has Opinions about about the people in whose company they find themselves.

Set in Australia, a plot complication involving wildlife.

[kelkyag]

Something in Tang-Ji history. Maybe Lady Cho and Lord Wen Chu's courtship? Or more of Time To Move On?

[rix_scaedu]

I found an episode of Hester and Mungo that I had written but not posted yet, so now I have posted it. It can be found in these locations:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/74552808?pr=true;

https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/431282.html; and

https://rix-scaedu.livejournal.com/333956.html .

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

1) I have boosted the signal on DW, LJ, and FB.

2) Please copy your announcement over on crowdfunding where fans and crowdfunders enjoy seeing events they can play in.

3) My prompts:

* Traditional Lakota (from Lame Deer Seeker of Visions): "There was really only one way for the young folks to get together. The girl had to stand outside her family’s tipi with a big blanket. Her lover would come up and she would cover both of them with her blanket. Inside that robe they would put their faces closely together and whisper to each other. The people who saw them standing there respected their privacy and pretended not to see them."

* Heinan Japan: "Arranging for two marriage candidates to meet for the first time, was known as Miai, which generally translates as “meet and see”, or more formally as ‘omiai” “honerable meet and see”. Omiai meetings were arranged by relatives, an employer or a go-between, after the families had been thorougly investigated to makes sure their social status was compatible, and photographs were then exchanged."

Historically, many cultures believed that romance and love should come after a compatible marriage, not before, and people were taught skills with which to build the foundation of a happy life together -- basically the reverse order of today's practices.

* Victorian England: "A gentleman does not disappoint a lady who wishes to dance or to attend an event."

Re: Prompts

[rix_scaedu]

I have written Under A Blanket in response to your first prompt and it can be found in these locations:

https://rix-scaedu.dreamwidth.org/ ;

https://www.patreon.com/posts/71547265?pr=true ; and

https://rix-scaedu.livejournal.com/333096.html

[siliconshaman]

A time-travelling female tourist (disguised as a man for the sake of safety) gets entangled in the villainous Earl's schemes by coming to the aid of a Debutant with a popped seam in her dress, thereby ensuring she's not in the ladies retiring room at the ball as the Earl had intended... The result is the scheme (a whispering campaign of rumours the next day) to force the Deb into marriage goes ahead, but with the protagonist not the Earl.

Sort of 'butterfly effect' meets Hayers.