Romance writing prompts
Romance lives in the small stuff. Use a prompt as your meet-cute, then let each writer add a glance, a misread text, or a confession the other won't hear for three chapters.
- Two rival wedding planners are forced to plan each other's weddings.
- A widower's grief support group keeps trying to set him up with the group leader.
- A bakery owner gets the same anonymous love letter every Tuesday for a year.
- Two people swap suitcases at the airport and start texting using each other's phones.
- A radio DJ realises the caller dedicating a song every Friday is her ex.
- A divorced couple gets stuck on a long-haul flight in adjacent seats.
- An author's biggest critic turns out to be her childhood pen pal.
- Two strangers keep meeting in lifts and pretend not to recognise each other.
Write one of these together
Storybored is a turn-based story writing game for 2–4 players. Drop any prompt above into a new story, invite friends with a code, and write the next line each.
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