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   Visit Jaimie Engle's website https://thewriteengle.com/   Follow Journey Sixty6 https://www.journeysixty6.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@journeysixty6writingforpub https://www.facebook.com/journeysixty6 https://www.instagram.com/journeysixty6/
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