Trying to write a story for Valentine's Day I found that the earliest origin of the 'roses are red, violets are blue' lyric is in Edmund Spenser's renaissance epic 'The Faerie Queene'. Now I'm thinking of a story with a seductive fairy on Valentine's Day, maybe some Shakespeare style fairy love potions. Would people like to read something like that?
Valentine's Fairy
- Thread starter Cleophila
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OK, I'm writing this story now. It's a modern set fairy tale of a sort about a lonely young woman spending Valentine's day in a remote, rural cottage and getting seduced by a fairy man.
What category do you think this story belongs in, I think either Erotic Couplings or Sci-fi & Fantasy, possibly even Non-Human. But the fact that he's a fairy isn't really an in your face thing, more sort of inferred.
What category do you think this story belongs in, I think either Erotic Couplings or Sci-fi & Fantasy, possibly even Non-Human. But the fact that he's a fairy isn't really an in your face thing, more sort of inferred.
SweetOblivion
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Perhaps you should see how it turns out and then decide where to locate it. Has the fairy man hidden his wings in his fairy closet - (grins)?
Try taking a few lines from Spencer or perhaps Shakespeare's Midsummer Night for a spin and see where they take you erotically.
It's a treat to see a thread with quasi-cultural origins and perhaps aspirations here - I'm sure you will create something worth the effort you put into it.
Sweet O.
Try taking a few lines from Spencer or perhaps Shakespeare's Midsummer Night for a spin and see where they take you erotically.
It's a treat to see a thread with quasi-cultural origins and perhaps aspirations here - I'm sure you will create something worth the effort you put into it.
Sweet O.
Thanks. I have actually written most of the story. I'm just still not quite sure about the category to place it in. As I said, it mostly downplays the fairy element, so there's no wings or anything and the guy looks mostly like a normal man. Do you think the audience of the erotic couplings category, for example, would be OK with a bit of fantasy magic or would the Sci-Fi/Fantasy audience be OK with something not very magic heavy?
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Cleophila, pick the category you see fit. If it's "generic" (for lack of better words right now) sex, Erotic Couplings may be best. Is it Romantic? You've already mentioned that the man being a faerie (my prefered spelling 
) is more of an undertone and not "in your face", so you may wish not to use Non Human or Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
Ultimately, the powers that be will put your story into a category they see as the most appropriate if they feel your choice wasn't. Anytime you're very adamant on your category placing, though, if you add a little note why you feel it's the best category for you in that little "notes" section when submitting they should leave it alone.
Be sure to post a link once it's up on the site!!
) is more of an undertone and not "in your face", so you may wish not to use Non Human or Sci-Fi/Fantasy.Ultimately, the powers that be will put your story into a category they see as the most appropriate if they feel your choice wasn't. Anytime you're very adamant on your category placing, though, if you add a little note why you feel it's the best category for you in that little "notes" section when submitting they should leave it alone.
Be sure to post a link once it's up on the site!!
Sean Renaud
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My experience would say to put it in either Sci-fi or Non-Human. Erotic Coupling is pretty much the catch all category for anything that doesn't fit into any of the special categories. Kinda like the "fiction" section of a book store or library. If it was sci fi, fantasy, historical, alternate history, horror, etc etc you would label it as such, fiction is when you did something generic (not that there is anything wrong with that)
If you aren't in the Survival Contest it really doesn't matter where you put it, and if you are put it wherever you're going to have the hardest time filling. Then double down and do a second Valentines Day story so you can swap if need be.
Cleophila, pick the category you see fit. If it's "generic" (for lack of better words right now) sex, Erotic Couplings may be best. Is it Romantic? You've already mentioned that the man being a faerie (my prefered spelling
Ultimately, the powers that be will put your story into a category they see as the most appropriate if they feel your choice wasn't. Anytime you're very adamant on your category placing, though, if you add a little note why you feel it's the best category for you in that little "notes" section when submitting they should leave it alone.
Be sure to post a link once it's up on the site!!
Thanks for the advice. I'm not adamant at all about where it goes, but I've submitted to Erotic Couplings and if it gets moved then they probably know best anyway. As you say, it's actually fairly 'generic' in a manner of speaking.
