When a many-times-jilted long-distance truckie falls in love online with a city writer, he must learn to trust again, to win her heart.

Hi there
I think D Forde is also same old lol but 'deeper and denser" too haha
They meet in the city where we show him as the fish out of water and then she gets in the truck and he sings to her and she's "in love" lol and then it's all systems go. But ...... he's got to learn to love his estranged son before he can even think about loving a woman .... and that's his life-changing event (B story) ..... to ultimately get the girl .....
Thanks :-)

Happy New Year dpg! What timing. I am just getting stuck into this again in earnest. The crazy thing is there's nothing, except gut feel and maybe eyes. We'll see how it goes. Right now I'm working on getting the structure in place (also following Blake Snyder's 'beat sheet'). This ahead of my next classes when we are going to look at the technical aspects of screenplays eg how to write dialogue etc). Thanks so much for your support. Look forward to chatting in the new year.

Okay, that can happen. But backing up a plot beat or two. They first meet online before they talk on the phone, right? So:

What's the psychological button pushed in their initial low-risk, online contact that causes them to cross the threshold (per the terminology of the "Hero's Journey") to the more emotionally perilous contact of voice to voice where the romantically magic moment happens?

Anyway, best wishes with your story. It's topical and has intriguing possibilities.