How to Write a Romantic Comedy

How to Write a Romantic Comedy, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.9, with 14 lectures, based on 35 reviews, and has 234 subscribers.

You will learn about # Why Romantic Comedy has never been more popular in movies, streaming, TV series and fiction. # The difference between romantic comedy and romantic drama. # How you can avoid clichés using the power of transformational character arcs. # What is a character arc and why it is the secret to creating compelling romances. # in-depth story structure craft using the 8 key story beats of every romantic comedy. # Examples from commercially successful romantic comedies. # Detailed story structure breakdowns for two movies: Notting Hill and Failure to Launch # How to Develop your Romantic Comedy around a Theme or Dramatic Question. This course is ideal for individuals who are Authors who want to write a romance novel. or Commercial Genre Screenwriters. or Short story and novella writers. or Writers interested in learning more about commercial story structure or Writers who need help planning and revising their romance novel It is particularly useful for Authors who want to write a romance novel. or Commercial Genre Screenwriters. or Short story and novella writers. or Writers interested in learning more about commercial story structure or Writers who need help planning and revising their romance novel.

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Summary

Title: How to Write a Romantic Comedy

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.9

Number of Lectures: 14

Number of Published Lectures: 14

Number of Curriculum Items: 14

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 14

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

# Why Romantic Comedy has never been more popular in movies, streaming, TV series and fiction.
# The difference between romantic comedy and romantic drama.
# How you can avoid clichés using the power of transformational character arcs.
# What is a character arc and why it is the secret to creating compelling romances.
# in-depth story structure craft using the 8 key story beats of every romantic comedy.
# Examples from commercially successful romantic comedies.
# Detailed story structure breakdowns for two movies: Notting Hill and Failure to Launch
# How to Develop your Romantic Comedy around a Theme or Dramatic Question.

Who Should Attend

Authors who want to write a romance novel.
Commercial Genre Screenwriters.
Short story and novella writers.
Writers interested in learning more about commercial story structure
Writers who need help planning and revising their romance novel

Target Audiences

Authors who want to write a romance novel.
Commercial Genre Screenwriters.
Short story and novella writers.
Writers interested in learning more about commercial story structure
Writers who need help planning and revising their romance novel

When a reader picks up a romance book or goes to the cinema to see a romantic comedy they expect to be entertained.

But more than that. They want to step into the shoes of these characters and be swept away on their journey as they fall in love.

Romance and romantic comedy has always been a literature of hope. Hope that there is someone out there who will see through your surface and come to love the real person you are inside.

That is the unique escapist power of the romance genre and it has never been more popular.

In this course I will share with you the story craft techniques that I use is my own award-winning romance fiction that you can apply to any romance writing project, including short stories, novellas, novels and screenplay

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Why Romantic Comedy has never been more popular

Lecture 3: How to make best use of the course materials.

Chapter 2: MODULE 2. CHARACTER ARCS AND HOW TO USE THEM IN ROMANTIC COMEDIES

Lecture 1: Introduction to Character Arcs in Romance

Lecture 2: Character Arc Ideas Exercise

Chapter 3: MODULE 3. THE IDEAL STORY STRUCTURE FOR ROMANTIC COMEDIES

Lecture 1: Story Structure for Romantic Comedy

Lecture 2: The Four Act story structure template

Chapter 4: MODULE 4. STORY DECONSTRUCTIONS

Lecture 1: Worked Story Structure Example of the movie Notting Hill

Lecture 2: DECONSTRUCTION OF NOTTING HILL

Lecture 3: DECONSTRUCTION OF FAILURE TO LAUNCH

Chapter 5: MODULE 5. SECONDARY CHARACTERS

Lecture 1: How to use secondary characters to inform and support the romance

Chapter 6: MODULE 6. THEMES, TROPES AND EXPLICIT CONTENT

Lecture 1: Anti-romantic comedies

Lecture 2: How to use popular romance tropes

Chapter 7: Last Words

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Nina Harrington
#1 Amazon Bestselling Author, Blogger and Authorpreneur

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