Romantic Comedy Writing Secrets
by William Bill Mernit
If creating a successful romantic comedy really was as easy as plugging a couple of stars into a standard boymeets-girl, boy-loses- girl, boy-gets-girl structure, the market would be glutted with...
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Romantic Comedy Writing Secrets
by William Bill Mernit
If creating a successful romantic comedy really was as easy as plugging a couple of stars into a standard boymeets-girl, boy-loses- girl, boy-gets-girl structure, the market would be glutted with genuinely funny romantic
comedies.
But can you remember the last truly great rom-com you ve seen? Only one or two in the past few
years topped the box office.
And as a story analyst who sees-and rejects romantic comedy specs on a weekly
basis, I can tell you that the ones that really work are all too rare.
So in the interest of helping fellow writers (and
good date movie-starved audience members everywhere), here s half a dozen key pieces of inside knowledge I d
like to share.
Follow these leads, and studios won t be so quick to pass on your project.
~~ WRITE THE CHEMISTRY
We go into a romantic comedy already knowing that our leads are going to meet, lose and, ultimately, get each
other.
So creating two unique characters an aud
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