Romantic Tragedy

Begin with

1. One Last Summer

   You meet a stranger at a seaside town who insists on living every day as if it might be her last, and by August you learn why.

   Your role: A cynical young architect taking a forced break

2. Letters from the Front

   In a fictional wartime coastal city, you exchange letters with a soldier you met once at a dance, and your letters become the only thing keeping him going.

   Your role: A telegraph operator in a city under siege

3. The Lighthouse Keeper

   An elderly lighthouse keeper asks you to read aloud from a stack of old letters, and slowly you realize the love story inside is his, and it has one chapter left.

   Your role: A hospice volunteer who has never been in love

Start a premise as written, or make it yours with your own hero, style, tropes and intensity. Every scene after the first is written around your choices.