Welcome to the Romance Toolbox!

This is where I store all my tropes, patterns, frameworks, ideas, and general way of doing things for romance stories! If you want to check out my personal tumblr, go here: My Lesbian and Meme Ridden Tumblr.

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Couples Tropes. Mixing and matching these, or combining can make for some really interesting dynamics.

• Grumpy and Sunshine
• Skeptic and Believer
• Fighter and Pacifist
• Jock and Nerd
• Jock and Goth
• Flirty and Flustered
• Rule-Breaker and Rule-Follower
• Popular and Outsider
• Uptight and Fun
• Bodyguard and Guarded

Emotional Bonding Ideas. Use these to get your characters to grow closer, increase romantic and/or physical tension.

• Reveal trauma, bagging, emotional backstory
• Talk about family
• Talk about future plans, goals, dreams
• Going on a date
• Dancing
• Cooking together
• Meeting friends and/or family
• Beach
• Fighting Monster or Bad Person(s) Together
• Giving medical aid, bandage
• Solving mystery together, finding clues
• Doing mischief or trickery together
• Exploring a new place, sight seeing
• Fair or festival
• Saving the other from death or danger

Very Basic Plot Structure for Love Story

1. Introduce the main character. Or Characters if this is a story with dual povs
2. Characters meet for the first time. Or, if these two alreayd know each other (enemies to lovers, childhood sweethearts, etc.) this is where the reader seems them interact for the first time, setting the foundation for the arc their relationship will go on for the rest of the story
3. Show why these are not currently in a relationship. Do they hate each other? Do they refuse to believe the other could love them? Maybe they don't know each other well enough yet. Or perhaps they're on opposite sides of a war. Whatever it is, this is the main force that has so far stopped them from getting together.
4. Now give those lovebirds a reason to spend together to build attachment, bonding, and chemistry. Maybe they work together and are put on the same project. Or they have a mutual friend. It could be that they simply recognize an attraction and go on some dates
5. As they start to bond, bring back and reinforce that thing that was keeping them apart. Give them challenges to overcome to find their love for each other
6. Keep building that tension, bigger and brighter until suddenly there's a Big Scene of Great Emotion.
7. Calming down from the Big Scene, the character(s) go into their own corner(s) and think their thoughts, let their feelings churn, and come to a realization that leads them back on the path of love
8. The lovers come back together and resolve the conflict that was driving them apart. They are in better place, in love, and the story has reached its end

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