I feel like this set up would be fun to do both either a best friends to lovers OR an "enemies" (non malicious friendly but they won't admit it rivals) to lovers.

I love the sound of this and looking forward to seeing what the imaginative beanies come up with. I am picturing a rom com set in a country location like Once upon a small town and the mix of book club attendees being representative of the locals at different life stages like the market stall holders in Our Blues. No ideas on the actors though.

I have read the first sentence (A woman who owns a cozy bookstore) and then I have stopped reading to think only of her, without knowing anything more.
And I have imagined Park Bo-young.

She will find love (slow-burn) in one of the last members of the club, Kim Seon-oh, a shy man she has just met. I have not decided if he wrote the love letters or not... 🤔

JUNG YU MI!!! She owns a small bookstore/cafe in a small seaside village. She's sweet, a little reserved, but beloved by the whole town of 50 people. Her customers are mostly vacationers looking for a quick breather away from the city.

GONG YU - ML who keeps coming back to the small town after his fist visit when he got fired from his job as a top civil engineer. He befriended the ajusshi next door, and fell for our FL when she asked for their help upon losing electricity one stormy night (this is why the FL did not see the ML. I mean, if she did, she's probably fall instantly too. Lol)

YOON KYUNG HO - ajusshi/owner of the shop next door

Book Club Members:
Chae Jong Hyeop - has a noona crush on the FL, that's why he joined the book club. Son of the town's baker who supplies pastries and bread to the bookshop cafe.
Jo Bok Rae - famous mystery novel writer who chose to stay in town for its quiet charm
Park So Yi - daughter of the writer and dreams of becoming an actress
So Jin - sassy seafood restaurant owner, FL's bestie
Seo Yi Sook - town's richest woman/ landlady, warm and loving business and life mentor to the group
Ahn Dong Gu - police academy student who's back in his hometown while taking a break from school

Cameo by CHOI WOO SHIK as an amateur surfer who visits town from time to time and is like a little brother to our FL. Turns out, he's the ML's younger cousin.

I'd want Choi Kang-hee as the bookstore owner, and for her admirer it'd be great to have a reunion with any of her co-leads from Heart 2 Heart, Hello Me, or Queen of Mystery.

FL - Either Park Bo-Young will suit the role of the bookstore owner to a T - bright and peppy and always ready with the perfect book recommendation for every patron. She's got the Girl-Next-Door look and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see a female bookstore owner like her in real life.

ML - Nam Joo-Hyuk. He could be the younger man who is a total sweetheart of a bookworm. He is a socially awkward editor at a small publishing company and so very good with his (written) words. He is always at her bookstore picking out something to read even though his TBR pile at home is threatening to fall over and crush him to death LOL!

The Book Club Ladies:
- Kim Mi-Kyung as the Big Sister of the group.
- Shin Min-Ah as the Man-eater of the group
- Kim Se-Jeong who is the starry-eyed Romantic of the group
- Seol In-Ah who is the Love Cynic of the group
- Park Eun-Bin as a young Catholic nun who secretly sneaks out of the convent to attend book group every week because she can give up everything in service of God... except romance novels.

The book club meets to read ROMANCE and they take turns reading bedroom scenes out loud every week without earshot of ML and other bookstore patrons who pretend they aren't interested in "stupid romance books" but are listening intently (judging by their red faces while browsing other books.

The members of the book club from “….Weather….” setting up a booth at the campuses of Kdrama high schools and universities lol

Lee Seol (Yoon Eun Hye), runs a cozy bookstore. A few weeks ago, a new tea house opened in the neighborhood. The tea house owner's (Yoon Se Ah) dongsaeng (Lee Soo Hyuk) is a poet.

One day the owner gets sick and she asks her dongsaeng, Na Mu, to take care of the store for her. That day, Lee Seol goes to the establishment and spends a few hours there, just drinking tea and looking at the sky. Then she writes something in a note, sticks it under the table, and leaves the place.

Na Mu saw her in action. After she leaves, he goes to the table and reads the note.

He asks to the staff if anyone knows her, and the tea barista (Han Ye Ri) reveals her identity (HYR's part of the book club).

One day, Seol sees a weird letter in her mail. A poem from an anonymous writer.
She thinks it's from one of her friends, so she talks about it with her bookclub members, buy they know nothing.
She ignores it.

The next week week she gets another letter. This time it's only one sentence "I hope words can give you comfort again".

At that moment, she remembered what she wrote two weeks ago in the tea house and smiled.

She came back to the tea house and left another note.
She kept getting letters and Na Mu kept getting sticky notes under the table.

When the letters where poems she would share them with her mates.

A few weeks later, a new member enters the club (Esom). After reading the poems she finds them familiar. She says she knows that writing style. It seemed like those poems were written by her favorite poet!

[To be continued]

Anyway, the book club has 6 members.

1. "Lee Seol", Yoon Eun Hye (bookstore owner obsessed with romance novels)
2. Lee El (plastic surgeon obsessed with short stories, especially creepy fairy tales a la IOTNBO)
3. Kim Ji Hoon (cafe owner/barista obsessed with dystopian novels)
4. Lee Kyu Hyung (High School teacher obsessed with historical novels)
5. Han Ye Ri (tea barista obsessed with horror novels and podcasts)
6. Esom (tattoo artist obsessed with poetry)

Group rule: every two months they read a book recommended by a different person to adjust to everyone's preferences.

I hope some writernim is reading these prompts and all the comments, there are so many good ideas! This one could become a nice and cozy romantic drama. I loved the last one about the chef and the street vendor too.

Oh my God I have nothing to add except that I NEED this to exist. But I think it'd be best as a shorter drama, 12 episodes max (maybe even a 4 episode one?)

JO HOON-HEE gets a failing independent book store as part of her divorce settlement with her ex-husband, CHA IN-PYO, a college professor she met in graduate school. She has to keep the shop open under the a bad lease with her FIL, LEE SOO-JAE, a famous retired poet, since she gets evicted from upstairs apartment if the store closes. The FIL never liked her so they are constantly at odds. The store takes up too much time and loses too much money. She has no family to help her out. Her ex-husband has won several global literature awards so he has turned into a jet-setting author in Europe and America. He has not seen his daughter in four years. JO’s sassy 11 year old daughter, PARK SO YI, hangs around the store to pick up on the cynical laments of the store regulars: lovelorn single baker JEON MI-DO, shy handyman SEO HYUN-CHUL, burned out high school teacher JUNG HYE-SUNG and widowed seamstress OH YOON-AH. When JO starts getting creepy love letters, she thinks it may be from the creepy next door kimbap store owner, KIM KAP-SOO, who is looking for a new wife to reign in his wild college age daughter, JIN JI-HEE. JIN is in the full YOLO experience in school, getting bad grades and hanging out with loser boys.

The letters slowly get more elegant and romantic which sets off alarm bells in JO’s head. She gets local police man, AHN JAE-HONG, to sweep the building for hidden cameras, since the letters have VERY personal references to her life and routine. Nothing is found which sends the book club regulars into action. They reference detective, crime thrillers and autobiographies in the store to help them profile the writer and create a list of suspects. But everyone things kimbap man is the One, but he denies it when he is confronted by PARK. JIN takes offense that a child has the gall to yell at her father, so they have a huge sidewalk yelling match that makes them both look terrible in front of the neighbors. In the end, PARK gets JIN to spy of her dad to clear his name, but she starts to get doubts as her dad is very secretive after work in his off-limits bedroom.

The mystery is solved when JO is throwing out things from her closet. She finds her Hope Box, and in it are love poems from CHA just prior to their courtship. She begins to see similarities between the sentence structure and imagery. She goes to a book signing to confront CHA. He denies ever writing the college love poems. Before she has a public screaming match, FIL LEE grabs her by the arm and drags her out to the autograph session. FIL LEE admits that he was the matchmaker, it was his love letters that made JO interested in his son. LEE wanted his aging son to marry before it was too late . . . so he picked a plucky, independent and caring person as his wife. LEE said he acted badly so she could get closer to his son (reverse psychology). Why torment her now with new letters? LEE admitted that his son made a huge mistake; his talent and fame overtook his common sense - - -...

Y'all have amazing ideas but the only thing I can think of is: this show needs Yu In Ah.

I currently wrote 15 minutes of screenplay. Phew, it's 3000 words.
I have two possible titles, but don't know what is the best:
"Bookstore where I rent your heart"
Or
"Bookstore where you rent my heart"
Keywords are "bookstore", "rent" and "heart".

I reached 25 minutes screentime. Yeah, writing a screenplay takes time (and I have my normal job). I'm still admirative of the writers of daily dramas, people doing korean sticoms or family/makjang like "the promise".

I have an outline until the end of the episode. I can't evaluate duration (I know, it's bad, but I couldn't plan a lot). I guess it should be < 45 minutes. (or I hope so)

There is some comedy in line with "from now on showtime!" and a mix of style with I-don't-know-what-drama.

Some news: I reached 52 minutes screentime.
With an outline to the end and few modifications.
So, I continue to write that.
Of course I never give up, it's just it's long to do.