I
really wanted to do this challenge and I spent HOURS this week working on two separate ideas (second after the first didn't work.) Sadly, I will not be submitting anything. I just couldn't get anything to work.
I wish I'd read the additional posts, but I didn't visit the board, because maybe if I'd known it wasn't the end of the world if I went over length and such it might have helped a smidge. Realistically, quite possibly not. It was a major learning experience, though. I figured that a valentine story -- especially one constrained so short -- shouldn't be angsty. So far, I have learned that I need to work on the following problems:
1) I am apparently
entirely horrid at writing fluff.
2) I am not very good at romance with someone else's characters.
3) I am not good at writing romance for someone else's characters when those characters don't have a romance in their 'canon' world. (Hence, my second attempt was a Sara/Grissom thing.)
4) I definitely tend to lean towards the angsty side with romance, even if things are generally happy if that makes sense.
Anyway, I'm going to try to work on the other story I'd started on, and maybe in a couple more weeks I'll at least have something written.