How Do You Read Romantic Comedies & Love Stories?
A valuable way to read romantic comedies and love stories is by pinpointing the desire in the story. Whatever a character wants, that is what you want too as a reader and thinker. If the author wants you to commune with and feel for the heroine, the writer will endow her with likable (or sometimes self-deprecating) traits. Understanding the story’s through-line, setting, conflict and the author’s approach to meaning unfolds and ripens a story’s romance. Think like a writer. An ideal way to understand any art genre is by trying to compose it yourself. Write an outline of a story you would like to tell. It can be from life or from your imagination. Once you have a sketch of a story idea—either funny or ardently romantic—balance the characters and the plot they are wrapped inside. Tell the thoughts of the main character while also painting the scene around them. You don’t have to know where the story is going or how it will end up: watch your characters begin to move and think on thei
