How To Write Romantic Comedy: A concise and fun-to-read guide to writing funny romance novels
Language: English
Published by Juxtaposition Publishing, 2020
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Choc full of practical advice and inspirational examples this is an essential read for writers in any genre. Mark Stay, The Bestseller Experiment PodcastThis book is hilarious: and it will make you funnier too. Kate Johnson, rom com novelistDo you want to write Romantic Comedy, but struggle with the comedy element of it? Are you stumped by how to inject more humour into your novel? Do you want to know how story structure is just like telling a joke? Do you want to learn these things whilst being lightly entertained and given a giggle or two?Then you've come to the right place.Award winning authors Jane Lovering and Rhoda Baxter have over twenty books between them (where they make a great defensive wall) and extensive experience of cramming laughter into literature. They will show you how to put comedy into your romances, and make you laugh while they do so.This book will teach you: The different types of comedyThe anatomy of a jokeHow to make things funnierDifferent uses for comedy in a novelA simple trick to translate timing onto the pageSpecificity explained through the medium of biscuitsIf you're looking for an easy, accessible How-To guide to writing romantic comedy* then this is the book for you.*Contains confectionery. Bring tea.…
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- Title
- How To Write Romantic Comedy: A concise and fun-to-read guide to writing funny romance novels
- Author
- Rhoda Baxter
- Publisher
- Juxtaposition Publishing
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1913752003
- ISBN 13
- 9781913752002
"Choc full of practical advice and inspirational examples this is an essential read for writers in any genre." Mark Stay, The Bestseller Experiment Podcast
"This book is hilarious: and it will make you funnier too." Kate Johnson, rom com novelist
Do you want to write Romantic Comedy, but struggle with the comedy element of it? Are you stumped by how to inject more humour into your novel? Do you want to know how story structure is just like telling a joke? Do you want to learn these things whilst being lightly entertained and given a giggle or two?
Then you've come to the right place.
Award winning authors Jane Lovering and Rhoda Baxter have over twenty books between them (where they make a great defensive wall) and extensive experience of cramming laughter into literature. They will show you how to put comedy into your romances, and make you laugh while they do so.
This book will teach you:
- The different types of comedy
- The anatomy of a joke
- How to make things funnier
- Different uses for comedy in a novel
- A simple trick to translate timing onto the page
- Specificity explained through the medium of biscuits
If you're looking for an easy, accessible How-To guide to writing romantic comedy* then this is the book for you.
*Contains confectionery. Bring tea.
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About the Author
WINNER - ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2012 with Please Don't Stop the Music, RoNA ROSE (NOVELLA OF THE YEAR) 2018 with Christmas at the Little Village School AND FANTASY ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2019 with Living in the Past Jane was, presumably, born, although everyone concerned denies all knowledge. However there is evidence that her early years were spent in Devon (she can still talk like a pirate under the right conditions) and of her subsequent removal to Yorkshire under a sack and sedation. She now lives in North Yorkshire, where she writes romantic comedies and labours under the tragic misapprehension that Johnny Depp is coming for her any day now. Owing to a terrible outbreak of insanity she is now the minder of three cats and an insane terrier - just as the five kids showed signs of leaving home, and she has to spend considerable amounts of time in a darkened room as a result (of the animals, not the kids leaving home). Jane's likes include marshmallows, the smell of cucumbers and the understairs cupboard, words beginning with B, and Doctor Who. She writes with her laptop balanced on her knees whilst lying on her bed, and her children have been brought up to believe that real food has a high carbon content. And a kind of amorphous shape. Not unlike Jane herself, come to think of it. She had some hobbies once, but she can't remember what they were. Ask her to show you how many marshmallows she can fit in her mouth at once, though, that might give you a clue. Go on, I dare you. You can find out more about Jane (should you wish to, of course) from her blog and website at http://www.janelovering.co.uk
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