Romance Dare Thread

What does MMC and FMC mean? I've seen them used a couple of times on the site.

If the restaurants weren't all destroyed, and the character's weren't living off of cans of baked beans in my novel, I'd use this dare '^^

Darn me having characters slash bang in the middle of a war <_<

Male Main Character and Female Main Character :)

Haha, I'm sure there's some way of adapting it... maybe halfway through eating their tinned delicacies of different flavours, they'll swap or something? :P

Holy potatoes, Ally! That's perfect for one of my other stories! My MMC and FMC spend most of the story eating and bickering at each other, so it fits right in XD Too bad it's not my NaNo this year D:

But, but, but... my MMC and MFC aren't the ones in love! XD

I'm writing a gay novel.

Dare - Have the cliche 'Character A, who's in a relationship with Character B, walks in as Character C makes a move on Character A, and gets the wrong idea.' Only, at the same time something tragic happens (An earthquake, part of the roof falling down, a pack of wild and savage vampires attack, whatever) and Person A has to decide whether to rish his life to rescue Persons C and B, even though he thinks that they're having an affair.

Eine_Erotisch_Katze - I'm glad!!
It's going to be in my other novel too :D
Except they won't be in love. It's just a plot twist to make another character and the readers think that my FMC is in love with her oldest friend / brother figure, when she's actually in love with her best friend!

Xephia - Cool. You could replace FMC and MMC with characters of your choosing of course... and I'll try to be more ambiguous in future dares :P

Here we go.
Dare:
Have two of your characters have a whole conversation in song titles.
Bonus points if one of them suddenly says something serious (eg: "Oh, no, here comes a crazed hairdresser armed with a curling iron" ... shush! It's very serious :P) and the second character replies with something like, "I don't know that one, how does it go?" before realising that a crazed hairdresser (or whoever) is coming toward them.

:)

Here's one...

If it's set in contemporary times, or at least back when Shakespeare was the new and hip thing, have MC1 compare their couple to Romeo and Juliet, and have MC2 say "What...we meet a few times and then kill ourselves?"

adexia - Haha, that's cool! I may have to use that!!! But I might change it to a MC talking to a friend... and saying, "We'll be just like Romeo and Juliet!" and then your line will come in *nod* Except "you", not "we"... :)
Cheers!
There's a line in a wrock song, "I Found a Loophole", by the Whomping Willows, that I love; "We'll be like Romeo and Juliet, except not quite as dead." :D

Believe me, I wish I could, except my MMC and FMC just meet each other, then they get transported to places without pizza for the rest of the novel. xD Maybe with fish or something...

Oh, I would so do that Romeo & Juliet thing, but neither of the couple is sappy like that. It'd be totally OOC for one of them to say something like that. Maybe I could change it around a bit though... A friend says it...

"You two are like Romeo and Juliet! ^^"
"Uh, yeah, I'd like to think that we won't die after a few meetings. >__>;;;"

o.o That's perfect! I can totally use that! >D

Variant on the first suggestion: have your characters do something like the spaghetti-eating scene from Lady and the Tramp.

Bonus points for using something smaller, like ravioli (a la La Femme Nikita, I think)

More bonus points for long, vivid description involving tongues and the texture of the food.

And if it's in public. Better still, in a fancy restaurant.

Here's another:

Have one of the MCs be blind, and accidentally kiss other people instead of his/her sweetheart.
Bonus points if the accidental kiss is an old woman.
Double bonus points if it's a hairy biker.

*suddenly wishes I had a hairy biker option* Hmn ... well ... lemme see ... would hairy calvary soldier work? Horses are like bikes ... or ... you ride a horse like you ride a bike .... There's just the whole speed thing ... and one is alive while the other is machine ....

Or as Craig Ferguson put it, horses are like "fleshy motorcycles."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVdn4DNOrU

@ adexia: One of my girls (I'm writing a lesbian romance) is [going] blind! This would be a good idea if she weren't so afraid of her condition. However, she is going to miss a lot.

More dares please!

Aha! Another one!

Base as much of the plot as possible off a song. Example: My plot is based off Within Temptation's Hand of Sorrow (The child without a name grew up to be the hand/To watch you, to shield you, or kill on demand)
Bonus points if you can use multiple songs.
Double bonus points if you use rap music or polka!

OMG I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! xD

And I really like that pizza dare. I think I'll use it, but I can't get the triple bonus points because Alex is already head over heels for Cindy, but she only likes him as a friend, and it's not one of those books where she's kidding herself. She really isn't in love with him.

And I think I could do the song title/curling iron dare with Janet and Cindy...hmmm....hehehehehhehehe. xD

I'm using those dares. They'll fit perfectly into my story ^^

Yes! The Romeo and Juliet dare can fit in so perfectly to my story! It's about a forbidden love, so it won't be hard to bring up Shakespeare!
I'm gonna try that pizza dare too...

Ditto :P

Franziska <3

I dare anyone to put a Possum in any of their scenes. Bonus points if the Possum's debut includes landing in someone's hair. Double bonus points if it lands in someone's hair during a kissing scene. Bonus points every time the Possum gets mentioned.

Triple bonus points if that Possum ends up dead and is thrown in the back of someone's car without them knowing. (You know, the Grumpy Old Men trick.)

So here I go:
Have the couple go walking down the street holding hands when a pigeon poops on the FMC head.
Bonus points if the MMC wipes at her hair with his jacket.
Double bonus points if th MMC puts the jacket back on.

haha, so that was lame xD

I can use a possum. That's easy.
MMC goes possum hunting--in his animal shape--and leaves one on FMC's doorstep as a token of his esteem.
(Okay, so MMC is a puma part of the time.)

The Dare: Have one of the characters sneeze during a really romantic kiss
Bonus points if it's their first kiss
Double bonus points if it's one of those sneezes that comes with like 20 sneezes

Ha. I think I might snag this one. It made me giggle out loud thinking of my poor little Flynn finally warming up for a kiss...just to sneeze in Jeremiah's face.

Absolutely awesome.

Double bonus points if they say, "Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen's got a gun" and mean it.

These are some pretty good dares!!!!

I hope more are posted, I really want to use a dare or two in my novel, but none of them seem to fit quite yet... unless I use the sneeze!

Lame dare:

Have a scene where your MC tells their love interest that the love interest looks like an animal of your choice.
Bonus points if it's a very unflattering animal (cow, baboon, toad, etc.).
Double bonus points if the MC means it as a compliment.

Thank you, Ally I have to use this! It goes in great with a scene that's been bugging me since I got my plot idea and its the perfect way to move it it forward! :)

And daqu, the sneezing dare made me giggle so I may have to work it in somewhere.

LOL, that was my first thought upon reading the dare!

Totaly using this one!!!
It is something that i can see my chatacters saying (epecially because they are supposed to be killing one another not falling in love XD)

Ashley-Lane
ML for Fayetteville, North Carolina