How to Make a Romance Movie Adaptation—as Shown by ‘The Idea of You’
So lesson to be learned here? Make your reader want the love interest as much as your hero/ine does.
Alexandra Sokoloff • Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II: Story Structure for Pantsers and Plotters (Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!) Book 2)
For the pursuit of romance to carry any shame is especially odd in 2025…Instead of just acknowledging that totally commonplace aspiration, though, we romanticize serendipity: People hope that love will fall into their lap so they never need to debase themselves by seeking it…The culture tells us…We should have a partner, but we shouldn’t want one.
“The internet has broken the distance that a lot of artists used to have,” Charli xcx told The Observer ahead of the release of Brat . “What gets me interested in an artist is when they have – not really a backstory, it’s more like lore ...”
In that moment, she defined the common thread between 2024’s biggest pop successes. From Brat summer to Tay... See more
In that moment, she defined the common thread between 2024’s biggest pop successes. From Brat summer to Tay... See more