30 Days to Your First Romantic Thriller: A Guided Prompt Journey
It started with chemistry. It ended with survival.
Romantic thrillers explore the most intimate kind of danger—the threat that shares your bed, knows your secrets, and makes you doubt your own mind. The genre asks what happens when the person you love becomes the person you fear.
If you've ever wanted to write a psychological thriller built on seduction, manipulation, and the fight to reclaim yourself, this guide will take you there.
What's Inside:
30 days of carefully structured writing prompts designed to help you build a romantic thriller from the ground up. Each day offers two prompt options with examples, so you can choose the path that fits your story.
You'll develop:
It started with chemistry. It ended with survival.
Romantic thrillers explore the most intimate kind of danger—the threat that shares your bed, knows your secrets, and makes you doubt your own mind. The genre asks what happens when the person you love becomes the person you fear.
If you've ever wanted to write a psychological thriller built on seduction, manipulation, and the fight to reclaim yourself, this guide will take you there.
What's Inside:
30 days of carefully structured writing prompts designed to help you build a romantic thriller from the ground up. Each day offers two prompt options with examples, so you can choose the path that fits your story.
You'll develop:
- A protagonist who falls believably and fights her way back to herself
A seductive, dangerous love interest whose charm masks something darker
The psychological web of manipulation, gaslighting, and control
Secrets that complicate both romance and danger
Escalating tension from suspicion to confrontation to survival
A transformation arc that honors both the romance and the thriller
This guide is for you if:- You're an aspiring thriller writer ready to start your first project
You love authors like Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Mary Kubica
You're drawn to stories about toxic relationships, obsession, and reclaiming power
You want to explore the line between passion and possession
You're ready to write a protagonist who survives—and comes out stronger
By Day 30, you'll have:
The raw material for a complete romantic thriller—the seduction, the unraveling, the fight, and the aftermath. Not a finished draft, but something vital: an emotional journey that will keep readers turning pages.
Love can be dangerous. It's time to write the danger.
- You're an aspiring thriller writer ready to start your first project