Romance Writing Prompts

15 romance writing prompts

1. Enemies to lovers: two rival wedding planners are booked for the same wedding.
2. Fake dating: she needs a date to her ex's wedding; he needs a reference for a job.
3. Second chance: they meet at their high school reunion, twenty years after she left without saying goodbye.
4. Forced proximity: the last two passengers on a stranded night train.
5. Grumpy/sunshine: a cynical food critic and the relentlessly cheerful owner of a terrible diner.
6. Pen pals who fall in love through letters, then discover they work in the same building.
7. A matchmaker who has never been in love is hired by the one person she cannot match.
8. Two ghostwriters are hired to write the same celebrity romance and fall for each other instead.
9. A florist and a funeral director share a van.
10. He agreed to be her plus-one for one event. It is now the sixth.
11. A single dad and his daughter's ballet teacher keep bumping heads over the recital.
12. Friends to lovers: they made a pact to marry at 35 if still single. It is her 35th birthday.
13. They sit on opposite sides of a famous debate on live radio every week.
14. A bookseller keeps recommending books to an anonymous customer who writes back in the margins.
15. Royal romance, reversed: a prince falls for the palace's most unimpressed gardener.