Please Help me with Plot of Story

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I'm trying to write a novel for English and I suck at writing and find it very hard especially with my teacher hounding me. I need to write a romance story between a club owner and a women but I don't know how to set the scene and events to get these to people to meet and interact. Can you guys give me some ideas for a plot that can involve these two characters and make them interact? Please help and thank you in advance.

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Côte d'Ivoire,1963. The ending of a hot summer. All the clubs had doors flung wide open, and the crowds spilled out on to the street.
"So, what brings you here?" asked the barman to the quiet woman with the chocolate coloured hair.
"Well," she said, stirring her hour-old martini while her deep brown eyes poured over the dark stranger behind the bar.


Pick a location. Spin a globe if you have one. Are the people well-off? Is one down on their luck?

A classic and frankly overdone cliché is:
A man and woman are forced together by fate or random chance. He makes a slight move on her, and she dismisses him. Later that meet again, and through his charm, they begin to date. When all seems well and good, one of them makes a stupid mistake (usually him). After a brief lull, he performs some romantic feat and wins her back.


Have one of them mention the surroundings, then describe them to the reader. I find longer sentences in the middle of conversation a good way to add small amounts of detail. Yes, you can sit there and fully describe everything the characters can see, but sometimes it's better to let the reader visualise things for themselves. Maybe keep the people vague, but describe in minute detail the surroundings. Like how one of them notices the spilled beer slowly etching a pale ring in the otherwise immaculate and polished bar.

Oooooh! A game! I love this stuff!

Being slightly contrary, I'd like them to be people that wouldn't ordinarily meet. As in: she is not a regular guest at the club, but rather someone he would meet in a professional way.

Or, from her perspective: she's in a profession where she would have no reason to meet a club owner, so how does she meet him?

Does this narrowing of the options help, or make it worse?

I often find that the difficulty in writing a story is that there are too many options, which is why I make silly rules for myself.

Hi, I was thinking of having the club owner playboy meet this women in circumstances that are weird interesting. These two people run in different circles and would usually have nothing to do with each other but due to an "event" they are thrown together.

I just haven't found what that strange interesting event or goal is. And it probably doesn't help that I haven't fully developed what kind of person the female character is. I was thinking that she can be from a crime family or something or some kind of magical creature. Something random but plays into this! Any ideas???

If she has some kind of power, the classic gambit is to have her save him from something - speeding car, falling air conditioner - and then she runs away. Then that night or a week later or whatever, she is out at a club with a friend and doesn't realize its his but he recognizes her.
If you wanted to do it differently, maybe she's not quite in control of her powers yet and sets herself on fire or makes an awning fall on herself, and he just happens to be nearby and smothers the fire with his jacket or pulls her out of the debris from the awning.

I've been thinking that I would like to have two people who have nothing to do with each other meet. Like what the person above said about her saving him with her powers, but the problem is having to think of a way, a goal or something for these two characters to meet continuously throughout the story????? I'm having trouble coming up with that

It's hard to know without more details. Can you give us more?