When Love Was New Contest

This just makes me happy.

Here's the info from the FFn page:

Quote :

The rest of the day, the following night, were hardly enough for her thoughts. She was bewildered amidst the confusion of all that had rushed on her wtihin the last few hours. Every moment had brought a fresh surprise; and every surprise must be a matter of humiliation to her.--How to understand it all! How to understand the deceptions she had been thus practicing on herslef, and living under!--The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart!...To understand, thoroughly understand her own heart, was the first endeavour. To that point wente very leisure moment which her father's claims on her allowed, and every moment of involuntary absence of mind.

How long had Mr. Knightley been so dear to her, as every feeling declared him now to be? When had his influence, such influence begun? When had he succeeded to that place in her affection, which Frank Churchill had once for a short period, occupied?--She looked back; she compared the two --compared them, as they had always stood in her estimation, from the time of the latter's becoming known to her--and as they must at any time have been compared by her, had it==oh! had it, by any blessed felicity, occurred to her, to institute the comparison. She saw that there had never been a time when she did not consider Mr. Knightley as infinitely the superiod, or when his regard for her had not been infinitely the most dear. The saw, that in persuading herself, in fancying, in acting to the contrary, she had been entirely under a delusion, totally ignorant of her own heart--and, in short, that she had never really cared for Frank Churchill at all!

-Emma, Jane Austen

Ahhh, that moment when we realize we are in love! It isn't always a bolt out of the blue, and it's not always a painful, humiliating realization as poor Emma's was. There are so many ways one realizes that love has found them...and that is what this contest is about.

Starfish422, mozzer0906 and Touchstone67 invite you to write a Twilight-based story about the moment a character realizes they are in love. Please note that this does not require a HEA or fluff - not all love ends with a happily ever after or is easy to realize.

The story must be an original one-shot - may not be an outtake from an existing story. The fic can be continued after the contest has ended, and you may make reference to this in you author's notes. Collaborations are accepted. There is no limit on the number of entries an author can submit. Each story is limited to 15,000 words, and we ask that you strive to remain within that limit.

Once your story has been posted, please send a PM to our link above. STORIES WILL BE VALIDATED FOR SPELLING AND GRAMMAR, and if it is not acceptable, it will be returned to you. You will, however, be most welcome to resubmit with corrections to spelling and grammar. If you wish to obtain a beta, we strongly recommend you check out Project Team Beta: http://community.livejournal.com/ptb_twilight/389.html

Once the story has been validated, it will be added to ours judges' criteria and, if the story is hosted on fanfiction(dot)net, it will be added to the C2. The entries are not required to be posted on fanfiction(dot)net. They can also be on any other hosting medium - Twilighted, Blogger, LiveJournal. If your story is not on fanfiction(dot)net, it will not be added to the C2, obviously, but it will not affect the judging process in any way.

The story may contain NO LEMONS (we define a lemon as penetration of any orifice; fellatio, cunnilingus, rimming).

The following actions are allowed:
- kissing
- manual (hand) stimulation of another, or masturbation
- dry humping

Please note these are not REQUIRED, but rather allowed. An entry that is entirely without lemons is fine too.

Here is the link to the Profile.

Here is the link to the C2.

Now get to writing bbs!

why must you taunt me with this angela?!

Omg! That is usually my fave part of a story. I tend to lose interest after the characters are together. So awesome! And it's lemonless! Whoooo!!