One of my latest favourite lines of romantic dialogue comes at the very end of a trailer for a Star Wars meets Cinderella film called Jupiter Ascending. No in-depth commentary from me. I got nothing but a bellylaugh full of love for the doggy bits. I think it’s a humour thing; this takes me back to […]
(AKA He said/she said) Does anyone else treat Gotye’s 2011 hit song Somebody That I Used To Know (feat Kimbra) as a four minute romance writing class? No? But it’s fun. And did I mention that it’ll take less than five minutes of your time? Okay, so the song’s about a breakup, and there’s no HEA or […]
(AKA AMBIGUITY RULES) The 1942 Warner Brothers movie Casablanca has so many iconic lines of dialogue that we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to studying them. “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.” We could start there. We could round up the usual suspects […]
(aka clever laughs) Romancing The Stone may be over thirty years old but it’s still my favourite romantic adventure romp–mainly because of the loving way it treats its main character. It takes about thirty seconds of screen time to hook me into Joan Wilder’s romance-writing world. The tears at the end of a story, the […]
aka Playful Heartbreak I’m a big Richard Curtis fan. Be it his television work or his feature films, the man knows where my emotional jugular is and exactly how to manipulate it. As a romance writer, I know practically zip about acting, cinematography, set design or scripts–all those things and more that come together to […]
