This is no longer a colab contest. The only person you'll need to contact is yours truly.

Breaking Up, Making Up

Rules (for all OneShots in the Ridiculously Happy Contest series)

-Has to be a OneShot above 2500 words, and below 10,000 words

-Must be Ridiculously Happy (no angst, tragedy, hurt/comfort. Looking for humor, romance, drama, general etc. Happy endings only please)

-Set in the current world (no sci-fi, supernatural, alternate universe, 200 years ago etc)

-The main pairing must be het.

-Be realistic (give the reader the feeling that your story could actually occur in real life. Just because it says Ridiculously Happy, don’t go overboard)

-Add the words ‘For the Breaking Up, Making Up Contest’ in your summary.

Guidelines (for the Breaking Up, Making Up Contest’

In addition to the rules above, here are the guidelines for the Breaking Up, Making Up Contest

- Must be about a couple breaking up, and making up again.

- No flash backs or flash forwards please. Must be set entirely in the present.

- Must include any or all of the following; (credit to groundhog591 for this one)

(a) someone obsessed with flaws, who points them out all the time

(b) someone fears everything, especially getting sick

(c) someone who is VERY over enthusiastic

The person (or people) with these characteristics must also be given a suitable NICKNAME based on them.

Notes:

-The characters must have a real reason to break up, and a real cause to make up again. No ambiguity please.

- Please, please, PLEASE let the reason for their breaking up not be "How dare you kiss her?", "I didn't kiss her she kissed me." Also, no "I'm not cheating on you" "Why were you hugging him?" "He's my cousin, silly!" Lets have some originality, huh?

How to sign up

1. Send me a PM saying that you plan to take part.

2. I will send you a confirmation within a week. (If I don't reply in a week send me a gentle reminder).

3. Once you complete your story, send me a PM with the story name, and url so that I don’t have to hunt around for it. Also send me the name of the person (people) with the above mentioned characteristics, and their nickname(s).

If for some reason you want to pull out after registering, please keep me informed. If you don’t I just won’t be able to take you seriously if you choose to sign up for the next round of this contest.

Dates

-Sign up RIGHT NOW!

- Story submission begins on 25 October, ends on 15 December. In case of popular demand, the deadline will be stretched by 10 days max. By popular demand, I mean sending me a PM saying why it is absolutely impossible for you to meet the deadline :)

-Voting begins the day after contest submission ends, which is 16 December.

Questions

Any questions? PM me, and l'd be happy to help.

FAQ

I decided to post all queries I receive, with my answers in case anyone else has the same question.

Does no flash back/flash forwards mean no three years later etc?

Yes. The maximum time period of the story is three weeks.

A Final Note

Don't hesitate to tell people about this contest. The more the merrier, right?

Have FUN! Enjoy yourself, and don't take the contest too seriously.

Contests

Ridiculously Happy Oneshots - completed. Winner: Ravina's Branded

I Love to Hate You - completed. Winner: Le Meg's Personal Bias

Making Up, Breaking Up - in progress.

For regular updates on my contests, click here. I request all participants (and future want to be participants) to do this. I will no longer keep you informed of upcoming events by PM's, unless you expressly request it.

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About Me

I read. I write. I sing. I can't really dance. I like french fries.

Some people really don't know what to address me as in PM's, and feel awkward calling me annoyance. You can call me Ann for short, if you like.

Live Journal

You can check out my Live Journal account, by using the 'Home page' link. Add me as a friend if you like, but please tell me who you are. If I recognize you, I'll add you back! I'm not exactly known for being regular with the updates though. Those of you who wanted to sign the petition but couldn't or those who have something more to say, you can sign the petition on LJ. The petition had been posted as an entry in my journal.

New Website

I'm working on an official website for the Ridiculously Happy OneShots contest. It'll take me a while, because I'm not very good with these things, but I hope to have it up and running in a month or so.

Purpose of the petition

Some people have PM'd me or reviewed saying that the petition will not help in reducing the plagiarism on FP. I am well aware of that. The purpose of the petition is not to stop plagiarism per say, but to garner support for those affected by plagiarism, and to give them a laugh at plagiarizers expense. After all there have been a lot of creative (read:savage) responses to the petition!

For those of you who want to make a serious attempt to stop plagiarism, use the link below. It leads to a petition which advocates the stopping of the 'copy and paste' function on ficpress, so that blatant plagiarism can be reduced to some extent.

http://www.petitiononline.com/stopfp/petition.html

I urge all of you to go ahead and sign this petition, because it provides an actual solution to stop plagiarism.

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