2023 Valentine's contest story ideas thread

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although the 2023 dates are not posted yet, in 2022 the Valentine's contest submissions started January 14th, so the Official Support Thread is up on the Author's Hangout, so I thought we might start posting ideas here , so folks who need inspiration can start writing.
2023 dates added:
starts: January 13
closes: February 7
winner announced: Feb 14 of course

themes: romantic love, Valentine's Day, Cupid, sensuality, etc.

This is a contest I often do enter, with a wide range of themes.

With Mom/Son so popular, I see one where Mom hires cupid to shoot an arrow into Dad who just wants to watch football & drink beer, but it hits son instead. Even have a title : Cross-eyed Cupid. But I don't write Mom/son. So free for the taking.

Who else has ideas?

 

[davion2308]

Errant shots from Cupid should always lead to fun. I have a story cooking where Cupid is out sick and Ares steps up to try his hand. Of course, he's hurling a spear of love instead of shooting an arrow and there are consequences and repercussions.

I would have posted it last year but I didn't finish it. Now I'm committed by bringing it up!

 

[Carnevil9]

....... With Mom/Son so popular, I see one where Mom hires cupid to shoot an arrow into Dad who just wants to watch football & drink beer, but it hits son instead. Even have a title : Cross-eyed Cupid. But I don't write Mom/son. So free for the taking.

You could write it as Dad/daughter. Dad hires Cupid to shoot an arrow into Mom, who has lost her sex drive due to age, childbirth, menopause, whatever. But the arrow hits the daughter instead.

I suppose you could just as easily do it as same-sex parent/offspring incest. Is there a market for that?

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Brand new for the 2023 Valentines - choc-eros! The gourmet treat that heats teats and seats! Not a mind-control marshmallow or caramel coated canalizer, these tasty chocolate morsels with the delicious fillings augment the sensual enjoyment of any recipient. We have tongue-tingling tangerine (adds extra special sensations to the lips & tongue,) naughty nectarine (improved sensitivity & pleasure from the nipples,) and even our latest sinsational breakthrough rumpsberry, increasing the forbidden darkest pleasures!

Warning - eat responsibly. No more than one choc-eros treat per night per person. Side effects may include overstimulation, under stimulation, simulation, and other possible symptoms. Read and follow all directions carefully.

 

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OP edited to add 2023 dates:
starts: January 13
closes: February 7
winner announced: Feb 14 of course

if you want non-incest ideas, office is always a good setting. Most incest ideas can be reset to boss/secretary or co-workers.
Or just have MC accidentally leave the sexy card on the wrong person's desk.

 

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You could write it as Dad/daughter. Dad hires Cupid to shoot an arrow into Mom, who has lost her sex drive due to age, childbirth, menopause, whatever. But the arrow hits the daughter instead.

I suppose you could just as easily do it as same-sex parent/offspring incest. Is there a market for that?

more of a niche market, but a market none the less.

 

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anybody got more exciting ideas about chocolate?

How about, bf accidentally leaves chocolates he bought gf out where gf's dog eats them. Gf rushes gog to emergency vet, not her regular kindly grandfatherly sort. This one looks like a missing Hemsworth brother. By the time dog is cured, gf and doc have fallen in lust, bf is forgotten?

 

[stickygirl]

I've not entered many contests and not this one, but is the premise here to create an implausible plot for laughs? Not being snarky - just don't know how this rolls.

 

[sirhugs]

I've not entered many contests and not this one, but is the premise here to create an implausible plot for laughs? Not being snarky - just don't know how this rolls.

straight romance plots are very popular and will likely win the contest. Think Hallmark movie with a twist, and sex.
Implausible plots for laughs bigger in the April Fools contest, one I really don't get. I've never understood pranks.

 

[MajorRewrite]

straight romance plots are very popular and will likely win the contest. Think Hallmark movie with a twist, and sex.

A couple of readers compared my recent Christmas story to a Hallmark movie. I got curious and a Google search found that there’s a standard plot for the movies that could certainly be the basis for a Valentine’s Day story:

Young successful woman living in the big city has to return to her small hometown for some kind of business deal. A man in her hometown is competing with her business deal or is opposing it for some reason. Romantic sparks fly. A misunderstanding temporarily derails their budding romance. In the end they team up on a business project that will benefit the entire town. Throughout the story there are many holiday events they participate in.

 

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so what do vampires do on Valentine's day?

 

[stickygirl]

so what do vampires do on Valentine's day?

Avoid steak houses

 

[UsuallyPresent]

so what do vampires do on Valentine's day?

Splurge and get their love a fresh, beating heart? Sexy wrappings recommended - that 18-yr-old from the gym looks tasty, for example. Plot twists - they’re addicted and taste off, or are an inquisitor in training, or angel-blooded. Oopsie.

Or key off the legend of the saint, and while incarcerated send their blood out (via rats, not songbirds) to infest the town & get them out. Plot twist, the blood gets adulterated and instead triggers a town-wide orgy.

A newbie vamp buys its beloved a silver mirror. Whoops, sorry, didn’t mean to remind you of your inhumanity. Or, what do you mean you threw that out- it was an antique! Wait, you threw it out again? Sorry! I didn’t know they went dumpster diving!

 

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finding the long lost love with a twist:

~ one or both are married to others
~ she became a nun/he became a priest
~his daughter dates her son
~ she is in the prison, he was just assigned as warden
~she volunteers art the homeless shelter he frequents...

 

[sirhugs]

"mismatched love while snowed in w at V day" works because though snow is a winter contest theme, in much of the world. February is mid winter. To freshen it up, what if Cupid is snowed in with the couple?

 

[UsuallyPresent]

"mismatched love while snowed in w at V day" works because though snow is a winter contest theme, in much of the world. February is mid winter. To freshen it up, what if Cupid is snowed in with the couple?

What if Cupid’s anerrand boy for the Fates, gets lost in a blizzard, and arrives late only to find the fated lovebirds in the middle of a huge fight? How’s he fix things to keep the Fates from getting even more ticked at him?

 

[lovecraft68]

I've not entered many contests and not this one, but is the premise here to create an implausible plot for laughs? Not being snarky - just don't know how this rolls.

You must be new here, most of the ideas put forward here make the old Penthouse letters collections look like reality

 

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You must be new here, most of the ideas put forward here make the old Penthouse letters collections look like reality

and yet, we periodically generate ideas that turn into stories. What does that say about Lit stories then?

 

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"mismatched love while snowed in w at V day" works because though snow is a winter contest theme, in much of the world. February is mid winter. To freshen it up, what if Cupid is snowed in with the couple?

or instead, two couples. One THINKS they are happily married, they ordered Cupids for the other couple, who are struggling. But once Cupid arrives...

 

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or instead, two couples. One THINKS they are happily married, they ordered Cupids for the other couple, who are struggling. But once Cupid arrives...

The next variant is the family on vacation- Dad, Mom, 20yr old son, 19 yr old daughter. The son & daughter ordered a Cupid to visit to try to smooth out Mom& Dad's rocky marriage. This cherub though has a bad aim. It takes 4 arrows to do its work, striking each family member. Oooopss... family frolic.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

The Cupid turns out to be a voyeur, each arrow grants lust and a lack of garments.

Or follow the Melissa Lambert song, and it turns into warfare between the bow-bearing boy & the unwilling-to-be-a-stuckee

 

[sirhugs]

zombies deserve love also...but how to keep them from eating the heart and the brains?

 

[UsuallyPresent]

zombies deserve love also...but how to keep them from eating the heart and the brains?

Truly a heart breaking waiting to happen

 

[sirhugs]

any ideas how to work ghosts into V Day?
since reading the new John Irving novel , I'm obsessed with ghosts & having flashbacks of Ghost

 

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Cupid in handcuffs

someone calls the cops about a chubby guy dressed only in a loincloth shooting arrows...

(Love the title, imagine it as BDSM, but no idea where to go with it)