If you really think about it, storytelling is one of the oldest professions known to man. It was around before modern-day medicine. In fact, I’m willing to bet people told stories before even rudimentary medicine. Plus, it isn’t going to go away. Almost all of our entertainment is derived from stories. The act of creating fiction is one of which every human being is capable, but which few do well. One of those select individuals is Victoria Male.

If you want something done right–or a lot of the time just done, period–you have to do it yourself. That’s the mindset Lindsay Grossman and Madison Jones adopted when they set out to create The Love List, an annual collection of the best unproduced romance-centered screenplays and television pilots. Their goal was simple: to revive the quality and quantity of on-screen romance by proving just how many romantic comedies were being written and to highlight the scripts that best captured that toe-curling, foot-popping, behind-the-door dancing giddy-ness we all crave. The inaugural selection, which was announced in and covered by Deadline, contained 14 stories of various lengths and settings, each containing a healthy dose of swoon-worthy moments guaranteed to sweep readers and audiences alike off their feet.