COURSE DESCRIPTION
In Jasmine Guillory’s Selling a Love Story, students will learn to create compelling romance narratives by exploring the foundational aspects of romance, including its rules, structure, and key terminology.
Module 1: How to Start covers character introductions, their life goals, and crafting an engaging 'Meet Cute.' Module 2: Sell the Characters helps students identify what’s missing in their characters’ lives, their strengths and flaws, and how secondary narratives influence their growth and the romance. Finally, Module 3: Sell the Story teaches students how to depict the journey from attraction to true love, ensure a satisfying happy ending, and craft a believable resolution after the Third Act Breakup.
This course provides applicable exercises for students to clearly tie story arc to characterization, and it’s discussion of how to make romance believable is applicable not only to the Romance genre, but strong romance B-plots as well.
COURSE LAYOUT
This course includes three modules of teaching over the span of three weeks. Each module is broken into three individual lessons that include video lectures, assignments, exercises, and opportunities to participate in community discussions with classmates and Jasmine Guillory. All three lessons for each module will go live at the beginning of their corresponding weeks, concluding with a live Q&A session hosted by Jasmine Guillory at the end of each module.
LIVE COURSE DATES
OCTOBER 21, 2024 - NOVEMBER 9, 2024
COURSE CURRICULUM
MEET YOUR FACULTY
JASMINE GUILLORY is a New York Times bestselling author of novels such as THE WEDDING DATE, the Reese's book club selection THE PROPOSAL, and DRUNK ON LOVE. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetite, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and worked as an attorney before becoming a novelist. Jasmine lives in Oakland, California with her adorable dog, Rosie.