Parallels Prompt - Last Minute Frantic Note

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Dear Author:

I fail.   :-(

You should have my prompts from the sign-up, and you're probably close to done by now, if not completely finished and posted (unlike me). So I don't want to give you anything that will throw off what you've done already.

All I can see adding at this point is some of my "cool bits," which are things that make me happy when they show up in a story:

hurt-comfort | being cozy indoors when it's rainy or snowing | senses of smell and touch and memories attached to them | sudden realization of one's feelings for another | warm and oversized bathrobes/dressing gowns or sweaters/jerseys | someone's profile silhouetted against the light | opposites attracting | impulsive acts of valor (especially on behalf of the weak or an underdog) | old-fashioned sections of town with narrow streets and alleyways and odd shops | licking honey or something similar off fingers | an autumn leaf or item of clothing as the only bit of color in a bleak landscape | brushing long hair or riffling fingers through short hair | romantic partners who are both competent | cabinets or cases full of odd curios | whispered admissions of love or forgiveness | finding in a fight that one's ally feels like a protective wall | cynics with secretly soft hearts | a study or library as a refuge against the outside world | kissing the inside of the elbow or the base of the throat | drops of water clinging to hair and/or skin.

I guess I should also include my big "don't likes" too, just in case:

• Characters acting OOC, especially if the purpose is to force them into a relationship (doubly bad if that relationship is romantic or sexual)
• Romantic/sexual relationships between partners of very uneven levels of power (adult/child, master/servant) - only a couple of writers have ever managed this without squicking me out
• By-the-numbers, every-action-described explicit sex (first they do this, then they do that, then ...)
• Mpreg
• Fluffy girlish stuff
• Extensive use of epithets, or epithets that don't match the character POV (no one should think of his or her long-time lover as "the green-eyed man," for example): these will throw me right out of a story.

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_{Pssst, sis, I don't know what the challenge schedule is like but since you're plotting out your own writing right now, does that mean should this post shouldn't still be blank? *nudge*}