How to Write a Romantic Comedy (Funny)
Usually my fiction is very dark, dealing with themes of trauma, abuse, and grief. After finishing one of this description in August, I decided to revisit a novel I wrote in my very early twenties. It’s a romantic comedy all about matchmaking and is way outside of my element (though I do enjoy watching and reading this genre).
It was delightful to get to re-read and re-write this story and experiment with something different. I created this fun video to go along with it.
Description of the book is below. Let me know if this is something you’d be interested in hearing more about.
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In a Little Town Somewhere (current title)
Is love a choice, a feeling, or a frenzy?
Or just the combined forces of fate and sisterly affection?
In a world of propriety and convention, the five Hartford sisters are anything but conventional. So unconventional, they’ll likely never attract husbands, ensuring they’ll be a disgrace to their family and community by dying spinsters.
Then, the eldest sister, Samantha, defies the odds and secures a husband—a wealthy and handsome husband no less. The Hartford’s biggest critic, Daniel Copeland, is determined no other man would ever be as foolish.
To end his criticism once and for all, Samantha and her husband make a pact that Daniel must end his verbal onslaught of their family if every sister is engaged by the end of the year.
Thus a game of matchmaking ensues—countered by Daniel’s sabotage—and the quest for love becomes a very time-sensitive race.
(Set in a fictional town in 1840s New England. Pride and Prejudice meets Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)