The Official Valentine’s Day Contest Support Thread 2026

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I feel for you. May I ask what are you transitioning from to?

Moving from client relationship to being asked out on a date.

 

[KindredFlame]

PM me if you want a second pair of eyes.

You said it far better than I did.

 

[iwatchus]

Moving from client relationship to being asked out on a date.

Do you have an ideas about how this is going to happen? How much story are you dedicating to it? How much set up have you done for it?

 

[KindredFlame]

Moving from client relationship to being asked out on a date.

Ok can I ask a friend who is in the business. I know this has happened to her.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Do you have an ideas about how this is going to happen? How much story are you dedicating to it? How much set up have you

I have it written I will message you

 

[KindredFlame]

The answer I got back is not going to help much. But her exact words were “she doesn’t let it happen.” From other conversations I have had with her I think what she means by that is she stops seeing them professionally and cuts all ties. Her business model is she is doing a job, that and romance “The pretty women scenario” doesn’t work as the man gets all up in her business trying to stop her doing what she is very well paid for.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

The answer I got back is not going to help much. But her exact words were “she doesn’t let it happen.” From other conversations I have had with her I think what she means by that is she stops seeing them professionally and cuts all ties. Her business model is she is doing a job, that and romance “The pretty women scenario” doesn’t work as the man gets all up in her business trying to stop her doing what she is very well paid for.

I appreciate it I really do..

 

[Neerdgirl]

Im in for this challenge

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Was just talking to my Dom/SO/PYL about this group and he was commenting on how he was so surprised to find such a supportive group of folks just helping each other out behind the scenes. This thread and everyone's offers of help the moment someone says they're stuck - PERFECT EXAMPLE!

 

[Voboy]

Frustrated … I have hit a wall and am just stuck on a transitional scene … nothing makes sense. Ugh!

Is it from out of the blue? Those are always hard to write. Some judicious foreshadowing or setup dialog would help.

I've had characters make this transition often; often it's because they're thrown together unexpectedly, they work through something together, and then unwind with a coffee. Presto: they're on a date, and the reader realizes it the same time the characters do.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Is it from out of the blue? Those are always hard to write. Some judicious foreshadowing or setup dialog would help.

I've had characters make this transition often; often it's because they're thrown together unexpectedly, they work through something together, and then unwind with a coffee. Presto: they're on a date, and the reader realizes it the same time the characters do.

That’s actually kinda a good - and relatable - approach.

 

[DEFCOM5]

After discussion with my editor/Alpha/Beta reader, I decided to skip the Winter Contest and write for the V-Day contest.

The story was really a V-Day story that I was forcing to put into a holiday story.

So watch this space for my silly comments and questions to come!

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

After discussion with my editor/Alpha/Beta reader, I decided to skip the Winter Contest and write for the V-Day contest.

The story was really a V-Day story that I was forcing to put into a holiday story.

So watch this space for my silly comments and questions to come!

Looking forward to those here!

 

[NaughteeDragon]

Valentine’s Day story, so I suppose you are looking for more romance rather than hard sex in this endeavour?

In the story I wrote last year, the MC doesn’t even have a date. He spends the night with his newborn daughter so her mother and her mother’s wife can have a date for the first time since she was born.
A Different Kind of Valentine

 

[EmilyMiller]

Roses are red
Or some alizarin
It’s fifty-four days
‘Til Valentine’s begins

Better get writing people!

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Hugss it’s written and in at the editor…. Wanna sneak peak?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hugss it’s written and in at the editor…. Wanna sneak peak?

 

[Voboy]

Better get writing people!

It's in progress. Hold your horses.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's in progress. Hold your horses.

I don’t have any horses

 

[Voboy]

I don’t have any horses

You can undoubtedly find something else to hold, then. Lol.

I'm doing something involving an intimacy coordinator on a Hollywood movie.

 

[redgarters]

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And they say you can't hear a picture...

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Roses are red
Or some alizarin
It’s fifty-four days
‘Til Valentine’s begins

Better get writing people!

I haven't decided if I'm writing it this year. I have a single idea that I'm not inspired to flesh out and I'm having too much fun with the idea of 750 word stories.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm doing something involving an intimacy coordinator on a Hollywood movie.

Oh! That sounds interesting

 

[redgarters]

I've got a horse in this race, first draft finished. it's a teary romance with not too much sex though, so not expecting any prizes. So... mostly watching this thread for Emily's poetry

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I've got a horse in this race, first draft finished. it's a teary romance with not too much sex though, so not expecting any prizes. So... mostly watching this thread for Emily's poetry

Mine isn’t heavily sexual either. It’s more romance, love, understanding and struggles of being accepted.

Doubtful I do well based on the category I am publishing it in but it is what I challenged myself as a writer to do.