4 things the winners of our 2025 Romantasy short story challenge did (very) well

Just about a year ago, we ran our very first Romantasy Short Story challenge. The writers had 7 days to write a short story of 2,000 words of less using specific prompts that we gave them at the time of the challenge start. Read on to see what the winners of the challenge did really well, and how to incorporate these lessons into your own short story!