Sci-Fi Romance

Begin with

1. Wayward Sparrow

   You stow away on a smuggler's ship to escape a corporate bounty, and its captain agrees to hide you, if you can fix the engine he has been nursing for a decade.

   Your role: A fugitive engineer with a price on her head

2. The Ambassador

   You are sent as humanity's ambassador to an alien empire whose crown prince believes humans are a dangerous, primitive species, and he is your assigned escort.

   Your role: A linguist representing all of Earth

3. Coldsleep

   You wake from cryosleep 40 years early on a colony ship. The only other person awake is the ship's engineer, and he says he woke you on purpose.

   Your role: A colonist with the skills to save the ship

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.