They Wrote Their Love Story While Scripting Others

Fourteen years after meeting as writers for “Gilmore Girls,” Bill Prady and Jessica Queller had a meet cute of their own.

Bill Prady and Jessica Queller both remember almost every twist and turn in their nearly two-decade-long journey together. The details of their relationship trajectory align like those of a good romantic comedy. It’s the subplot that trips them up.

The couple agree on the basics. They met in Los Angeles in 2003 as staff writers on the TV series “Gilmore Girls.” They became friends. “Bill was the smartest guy in the room, and so kind, too,” Ms. Queller said.

Mr. Prady was divorced and remarried with a young daughter at the time and saw Ms. Queller as “the embodiment of Manhattan. She was strikingly smart and sophisticated.”