So, lately I’ve been thinking about writing a novel. I’ve been thinking about writing a cute romantic comedy that could later be made into a movie. It would go a little something like this…
Girl has hang up. Boy has obstacle. Both of them are living miserable or at least mediocre lives. Girl and Boy meet. You think for a while that Girl and Boy would be perfect for each other, and that they will be so happy together. But then the hang up/obstacle/maybe both (I haven’t decided yet) will come back into the play. It’ll be something like…a child the other one doesn’t know about who has been away for a blissful summer…or an inability to love…or like one of them will do something that is misconstrued by the other for their job…or like maybe they won’t have REALIZED that this person was the right person because they were just really good friends looking for love in all the wrong places, and some other person comes into the picture….or they will just clam up because they’ve failed at this love thing in the past…or they’ll see one little thing that happens in this other person’s life and decide it’s just too much to bear. Anyway, there will be some CRAZY event…like a death in the family, or an almost marriage to the OH SO OBVIOUSLY wrong person, or a job out of state, or a new love who seems even more perfect, or SOMETHING that will serve as a catalyst and then BAM! Just when the reader had given up, they will end up together. The ending will be very happy…warm fuzzies for all. You might even say that it was PREDICTABLE in the end.
I mean, I have NEVER seen anything like this done. I think it’s a sure shot. Just need to get some of the specifics down on paper…and have my characters size me up, see if I’m worthy of writing their story…and then I’ll be in business. We’ll be rich! (That last part, about characters sizing me up was for Bobbi Jo. Lest she wonder).
(If it’s not obvious…this is to demonstrate my utter frustration with the predictably and sameness of many of the romantic comedies out there. Why do I even bother to watch them/read them).
I liked reading this, and I did get that you were being sarcastic throughout… but I actually have come to like, nay, LOVE the predictability and sameness of romantic comedy in movies and books. You probably wouldn’t expect this from ME, right? I can be a literary snob at times. But I love that in my unpredictable life, during some of the tumultuous times, I can pick up a Sophie Kinsella book and know exactly what is going to happen. I love it! Give me sameness in a world where it would never happen. It is the perfect escape.
Michelle! You totally made me smile. That is a very good way of looking at it. I’m sure that I would like reading them as much if they didn’t have the perfect fairy tale ending. I will have to check out this Sophie Kinsella.
And THIS, is why I HARDLY CAN’T stand most books, movies, etc – but mostly books!! I hate reading a book and realizing half way thru I am wasting my time cuz i know how it will end! Heck, not half way, but like 1 chapter in!!! You sized it up perfectly!!!!