Novelist Jaimie Engel on Becoming a Romcom Screenwriter

The Writing Podcast

English - January 16, 2023 21:07 - 40 minutes - 56 MB
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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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