Two strangers meet: a reclusive writer and an enthusiastic wannabe editor (common ground)
By accident, they exchange portfolios and have to reconnect platonically.
The protagonist has three obvious barriers to her dream job. She's doesn't, a scary potential boss that already said no, and her competition is immediately jealous of her.
Her curiosity leads her to read a manuscript that she loves. Because she's so enthusiastic, she takes the writer to a copy place, and, with this task, they hit it of.
She is by sheer preparedness offered a job when the editor's assistant elopes.
The writer's identity is the mystery, but allows the protagonist's enthusiasm for him to be clear.
She is given the Herculean task of finding her boss a dating match, and her roommate immediately finds her a system that is a solution.
Time passes in a comedic fashion with her researching a few of the potential online dates.
Meanwhile, the writer's friend has written a great book, and the writer isn't confident about his, and is two years behind schedule. They end up working together to get the book ready.
The writer gets unblocked and the wannabe editor is offered her dream job, while they edit the friend's book.
Eventually he takes her somewhere he finds special- a (fantasy) 24 hours bookstore, where she proclaims her fanship, and criticizes him without knowing who he is.
His identity becomes a barrier to their growing intimacy, but his secret identity is too important to give away yet.
When he tries to kiss her, she runs away from her feelings because she is saving him for her boss' romantic options.
In offering the writer to her boss, she spends more time with him and his friend. While her boss likes the friend, she keeps her distance in the mistaken idea that her boss likes the writer when she has fallen for the friend.
The writer asks her to read his next book in an act of trust, but he overreacts when the junior editor's jealous colleague tells him that he was part of an elaborate search for her boss' romantic interest.
Despite his rejection, she keeps his secret and loses her job over it.
She makes peace with her nemesis, who apologizes to her.
She loses her job, but is offered a better when she is offered partnership with her senior editor boss.
When they meet again, he discovers that she has kept his confidence. He apologizes, and they kiss.
Happy ending with financial security, dream career, and friendship ensue.
IN OTHER WORDS:
Setup: two strangers meet by chance in coffee shop
Inciting incident: they mix up their portfolios, and have to remeet to exchange them
Rising action: She applies for a job at a publishing company.
She looks for a dating profile for her boss
They help his friend publish a book.
He finishes a long overdue book.
They get to know each other, and take increasing leaps of faith.
She thinks her boss likes him, and tries to keep her feelings platonic for the sake of her job.
He tells her who he really is.
Climax: Risking her job, she keeps his confidence, but he rejects her when her jealous colleague tells her secret in the most unflattering light, and he overreacts
Falling action: She loses her job, gets a better one, and remains available.
He takes his book away from the original publisher, and finishes it.
Resolution: He apologizes, she accepts, and the two couples live happily and successfully ever after.
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