Will there be a Valentines Day contest this year?
Crap. I totally forgot to announce it with enough lead time.
I'll do like for halloween, I'll set up a reminder for the years to come to make the announcement of the contest ahead of time.
Crap. I totally forgot to announce it
OMG! He is actually human after all! 😱
Perhaps use it as an opportunity to step away from the tried and true, and use a different prompt: spring equinox or summer solstice.
I was wondering about a suitable alternative too.
Saints days are too religion-specific. Named full moon dates seems a bit weak. I like your spring equinox date because it's a good distance from Halloween but is it a good prompt for a story? 20th March, Alien Abductions Day might be cool.
FWIW there's only one Friday 13th this year - in June.
AJ
FWIW there's only one Friday 13th this year - in June.
I have yet to experience a Friday the 13th that can hold a candle to the average Monday. Now Monday the 13th...
I like it. There are a lot of possibilities with that. Being European, V-day is just a marketing ploy for florists, restaurants and chocolatiers for me. Okay, that's what Halloween is for pumpkin growers, but at least it's fun and no obligation for y-chromosome carriers.
With all the Irish pubs I've found in other countries around the world, I'm willing to suggest St. Patrick's Day too. Like the subreddit r/writingprompts, some people need the thin reed of an excuse to write something that amazes. To the point, I've been knocked back on my heels at some of the efforts in the last SOL contests. THE READERS ALWAYS WIN.
Valentine's Day, the Ides of March, St Patrick's Day, and April Fool's Day come pretty close together (and Pancake Day is usually in the same interval). Doing more than one of those in the same year might lead to overlapping contests.
New Year's Eve would also be a good theme, in a year when the next contest was planned for March or April.
St Patrick's Day
St David's Day, 1st March. St George's Day, 23rd April.
(St Andrew's day, 30th November, is probably too close to Halloween.)
AJ