by Tom | Oct 23, 2024 | 2024 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, News, Rom-Com award, Screenwriting Contests, Updates, WriteMovies News
Our Romance and Comedy Award 2024 is not just about telling love stories or making people laugh – it’s about creating something truly original. So how do you make your romantic comedy stand out?
Romance and comedy are amongst the most widely loved genres in film. You can read our article on why that is here! To make your romantic comedy stand out amongst the sea of compatible scripts, you must break free from the predictable formulas to develop a fresh, unique narrative that leaves a lasting impression on audiences as well as industry professionals. Here are a couple of the ways you can achieve this…
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by John | Dec 2, 2019 | Rom-Com award
Our celebration of great writing continues with our latest genre prize. After the great success of our Sci-Fi and Fantasy and Horror awards, we are proud to announce the first ever WriteMovies Romance and Comedy Award!
Do you like to make people laugh with great comedy? Are you a fan of stories about enduring love and relationships? Or do you like to blend the two into that most classic of genres, the rom-com? Then this is the contest for you!
The WriteMovies Romance and Comedy Award is here to celebrate scripts that lift our spirits through laughter or inspire us with passionate love – or a bit of both! We’ll be accepting scripts in the genres of both comedy and romance, plus the crossover genre of the romantic-comedy.
The winner of this prize will receive:
- Guaranteed pitching to industry
- Two sets of Development Notes to help take their script to the next level
- Further advice to fine tune their script from our experts
Plus, every entry to this award will receive free, automatic entry to the WriteMovies Winter 2020 Screenwriting Contest!
So it’s time to get writing. Standard entry to this award lasts until Sunday 5th January, with the final deadline on Sunday February 9th! Click here to visit the main contest page and submit your script!
by WriteMovies | Feb 8, 2019 | Highlights, Ian Kennedy, Writing Insights
Since it’s their results week too as we publish this, here’s a pic of Ian Kennedy, our Director of Worldwide Development, at BAFTA for a recent meeting with our founder Alex Ross!
Announcing results is the tough bit… especially at the Quarter-Final stage, where we have the most decisions to make, and the most people’s to disappoint about their writing submissions. At WriteMovies we make it our job to constantly open a door for writers and push their work to the next level, and take the ones that are ready into the international industry – but everyone is starting from a different place and whatever level a writer reaches they always have further steps to take to succeed and sustain themselves in the industry. To help you understand our logic and tips for how to make your work stand out to us, our Director Ian likes to write articles about “What Your Writing Has Been Telling Us” over this time. (more…)
by WriteMovies | Mar 25, 2016 | Studio Consulting, Trainees' Examples
“’What-if’ questions often generate very enjoyable writing, especially in the romantic comedy genre, for which we’re more happy to suspend our disbelief than usual…” Comments by us and Extracts from a script report by our trainee Daniela Piper-Vegh, based on a reading of the script 17 AGAIN: CLICK HERE (more…)
by WriteMovies | Mar 19, 2016 | Ian Kennedy, Writing Insights
By Ian Kennedy, WriteMovies Director of World Wide Development: Genre is so often key to convincing producers, and audiences, to take an interest in your story. Yet at the same time, I hear lots of writers and viewers complaining about formulaic, predictable, derivative stories that lack originality and interest precisely because of their adherence to a genre. So why does genre matter so much, for better and worse? (more…)
