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Romantic Comedy - Guest D. J. Blackmore
Comedy and romance. Its a sweet combination. There’s nothing better for health and happiness than a belly laugh and falling in love - just ask your doctor - and long before Shakespeare penned Romeo and Juliet, love joined families and divided nations with equal strength. Love and laughter are the both the lynchpins of life and the icing on the day’s cake. But when we take a look at how best to write romantic comedy that wins hearts, there are are a few ingredients that need careful measurement.
What romance ever ran smoothly? It didn’t. Ups and downs are both realistic and believable. Turmoil tugs on the heartstrings. And although constant conflict is stressful, resolving each hiccup as it surfaces, gives your audience space to breath, and allows them to settle into comfort once more before the next disagreement between the characters takes place. It also helps the reader learn about the characters as they grow with each other, just as day to day life hardships do in any relationship. When it often seems that they are at loggerheads, you as the author get the opportunity to resolve their differences and show their character growth as individuals and as a couple, along the way..
Any good story relies on shock. Think of media stories that hit the hardest: they are heart wrenching, yes, but they are also often happy ever afters.
Don’t think that the love story has to be the main focus of the book. The hero, besides being in pursuit of love, may well be chasing after something else entirely different. Man has always needed something to strive for, and although love is one of them, he needs a goal in life. Whatever the hero is trying to achieve, it’s important that his or her character grows from the beginning of the book, right up until the end.
He doesn’t think his struggle is funny, he has no idea you’re laughing as he stumbles and picks himself back up again, but that’s the whole point: the hero is the bloke that the reader wants to back, the guy you could fall in love with yourself, the man who deserves to walk into the sunset with the girl of his dreams. He might have known all the long that she was the one for him, but you as the writer, need to make her aware of it, building her slow realisation that this man is that part of her that was missing, and that ‘Mr Right’ fulfils her as a person. He might have had to go to all means of stupidity, bravery or deception to attain his goal, but then, all’s fair in love and war, and the way he goes about achieving that end is what makes us laugh. Because we can identify with his blunders, his imperfections; his humanity.
Romantic comedy doesn’t rely on getting into bed to sell the story. There’s no diving into each others’ arms and onto the dinner table for the main and sweets. That’s not to say that there’s no physical intimacy, only that the story is more meaningful than one of gratuitous sex. Whether the two make great bed partners, or not, it doesn’t mean that they’re right for each other, so make sure you convince your audience that these people who seemed like the least likely couple, are actually made for each other. That the relationship that first appeared hilariously wrong is in reality, heartwarmingly right.
-D. J. Blackmore
Title: Charter to Redemption
Author: D.J. Blackmore
Publisher: Even Before Publishing (May 1, 2014)
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction
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What romance ever ran smoothly? It didn’t. Ups and downs are both realistic and believable. Turmoil tugs on the heartstrings. And although constant conflict is stressful, resolving each hiccup as it surfaces, gives your audience space to breath, and allows them to settle into comfort once more before the next disagreement between the characters takes place. It also helps the reader learn about the characters as they grow with each other, just as day to day life hardships do in any relationship. When it often seems that they are at loggerheads, you as the author get the opportunity to resolve their differences and show their character growth as individuals and as a couple, along the way..
Any good story relies on shock. Think of media stories that hit the hardest: they are heart wrenching, yes, but they are also often happy ever afters.
Don’t think that the love story has to be the main focus of the book. The hero, besides being in pursuit of love, may well be chasing after something else entirely different. Man has always needed something to strive for, and although love is one of them, he needs a goal in life. Whatever the hero is trying to achieve, it’s important that his or her character grows from the beginning of the book, right up until the end.
He doesn’t think his struggle is funny, he has no idea you’re laughing as he stumbles and picks himself back up again, but that’s the whole point: the hero is the bloke that the reader wants to back, the guy you could fall in love with yourself, the man who deserves to walk into the sunset with the girl of his dreams. He might have known all the long that she was the one for him, but you as the writer, need to make her aware of it, building her slow realisation that this man is that part of her that was missing, and that ‘Mr Right’ fulfils her as a person. He might have had to go to all means of stupidity, bravery or deception to attain his goal, but then, all’s fair in love and war, and the way he goes about achieving that end is what makes us laugh. Because we can identify with his blunders, his imperfections; his humanity.
Romantic comedy doesn’t rely on getting into bed to sell the story. There’s no diving into each others’ arms and onto the dinner table for the main and sweets. That’s not to say that there’s no physical intimacy, only that the story is more meaningful than one of gratuitous sex. Whether the two make great bed partners, or not, it doesn’t mean that they’re right for each other, so make sure you convince your audience that these people who seemed like the least likely couple, are actually made for each other. That the relationship that first appeared hilariously wrong is in reality, heartwarmingly right.
-D. J. Blackmore
Title: Charter to Redemption
Author: D.J. Blackmore
Publisher: Even Before Publishing (May 1, 2014)
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction
Get The Book Here
Goodreads
Wordpress Blog
Website
More About Author J.C.Wing
"I had the idea to write Alabama Skye about five years ago. The main premise of the story has always been the same, although many of the details changed between when I first started writing it and when it was completed. I was writing another novel, my first, when the story for Alabama Skye came to me. I had to put the book on hold for a bit, and many things happened in my personal life that shaped Alabama Skye and made it what it eventually became.
Every single one of the characters in Alabama Skye is special to me in one way or another. The most special, however, is Sarah Guthrie Gannon..." - J.C. Wing
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Every single one of the characters in Alabama Skye is special to me in one way or another. The most special, however, is Sarah Guthrie Gannon..." - J.C. Wing
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