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Novelist Jaimie Engel on Becoming a Romcom Screenwriter
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In this interview with youth fantasy fiction and non-fiction writer Jaimie Engle, she describes her journey to become a RomCom screenplay writer.
Great Moments in this Episode
(4:30) How Jaime made a surprise connection to an attorney in the film industry during what she calls the Apocalypse (the first couple years of Covid)
(6:00) Her decision to take a Zoom class on "How to write the Christmas RomCom"
(8:20) The moment Jaime heard the news that she had landed a contract for her first screen play
(9:25) What Jaime learned from the screenwriting class that she applied to her writing
(11:40) The importance of cliffhangers in any kind of writing
(16:35) What inspired the idea for the RomCom
(17:54) The definition of a logline in screenwriting
(19:24) How to write dialogue for a screenplay
( 21:32) The hardest thing to remember when writing a screenplay
(36:38) Words of the Episode: freudenfreude and preternatural
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