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Naked WP 019 (The Writing Challenge 2019)

Rules:

1. Be able to complete the challenge before the end of 2019 (December 31, 2019 @ 12 midnight)

2. Be able to write each story with no less than ten chapters, composed of no less than 2,400 words per chapter. OR the whole story should be composed of no less than 24,000 words in total. That excludes Author's Note, Announcements, Prologue, Epilogue, or Special Chapters within the story.

3. Be able to write new, original stories that have been published starting January 1, 2019 @ 1AM.

Meaning, (a) writer should not use unpublished or ongoing stories and  (b) works published before the aforementioned date and time would not be considered for the challenge.

However, (a) writer can use stories drafted before date and time aforementioned as long as it hasn't been published in any social media or writing platform before and (b) writer can use personal ideas for stories---whether previously posted or not in any social media or writing platform---as long as it hasn't been produced or published into a story before the aforementioned time and date.

4. Writer should mention in Author's Note or in story description if story is written for the challenge.

5. Writer can have one chance to write a story that uses two prompts or ideas (writer just has to mention that in the Author's Note or in the story description). Otherwise, it's one story per prompt or idea.

6. Writer can use other literary genres to mix with the romance genre.

7. Writer cannot unpublish story once story is posted. Writer should complete every (and all) story posted for the challenge.

The Prompts or Ideas:

1. someone in a relationship with a foreigner (someone who is different from his/her in race and/or in ethnicity)

2. someone who met the love of his/her life in an unconventional way (like, through dating website, through dating apps, through blind dates, etc. But arranged/forced marriages are not to be considered for this prompt)

3. someone who is an OFW who finds love in the country she/ he is working in

4. a May-December romance between people that are forbidden to be together

5. someone who falls in love with someone who is sick with terminal illness, psychological disorder, communicable or incurable disease, or someone who is with a physical deformity or physical "disability"

6. a romantic retelling or reimagining of a fairytale, legend, parable, or myth

7. a tale inspired by that of your parents' love story

8. a love story written in the form of  diary entries or a series of letters

9. a trilogy using one character or one setting or any one element (except for theme) that must recur throughout the novels in the trilogy

10. a love story set in a time of turmoil---can be fictional or real (war or famine or epidemics)

11. a love story set in a time in the past (must be at least set in early 2000s and backward)

12. a love story you don't want to happen to you