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You've Got Mail is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's so adorable. But my imagination wondered what would happen if you took the You've Got Mail plot and made the Tom Hanks character a Hollywood Heartthrob instead of a rival bookstore owner.
The inspiration for the meet-cute with a vintage typewriter came one day when I was writing in my favorite San Francisco cafe and a girl came in with a portable teal typewriter and started typing away. That's when the idea of the "pen pals" sending type written letters instead of emails or texts was born.
Just finish your story. You can always fix it later. I have more than a few half-finished romances stashed away on old hard drives. I was always so busy editing and rewriting the first few chapters, I never made progress. Nothing changed until I promised myself to write a book all the way through before I worried about revisions. That was a game changer!