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Screenwriting - Romantic Comedy

How to write a romantic comedy

General background on writing - Writing a script is a complex, expensive, and sometimes it takes several years until it starts to move and goes to production.

In the Production stage millions of dollars maybe invested on the creating process and the script is checked again and again and again by the readers of the production company, the producer and the director. Everyone will have his notes on the script.

Most people who enter the field assume that screenwriting is a side business and since they have talent and creativity, they can take a break of two weeks and write the next hit that probably will be sold to Hollywood and put them a million by the end of the year. It has not and have never happened.

Average script writing takes between six months and this year for professional writers who spent years on studying the screenwriting craft.
This is the average time but writers that aim high and want to win a global distribution often found himself writing for several years.

Writing skills requires two contradict abilities such as emotion and common sense simultaneously.

To write a romantic comedy the writer must control the screenwriting basics craft. It never ends. Once we have acquired the knowledge we ready to begin the work of writing a romantic comedy. Romantic comedy is a combination of two genres, one comedy and the other a love story.

The Narrative statement on a romantic comedy is that love and selfishness do not go together. The comedy is really to decorate and to entertain.!

This genre contains two heroes although normally one will be more dominant than the other and the story will be told from his perspective.

The Romantic comedy is being moved between humor and the touching moments of drama.

The two heroes start the movie when they do not know how to love because selfish. Another element that repeats is that falling in love from the first moment they met. The second moment they goes to war.

At this point, the hero begins his persecution

By this point a misunderstanding between the hero and heroine set them apart. Now they hate each other more than they hate before thinking "I was right all along". As the movie goes forward the real fight between them is on power. Who control on the other. By the end they will learn to cooperate.

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