MEET YOUR FACULTY

JASMINE GUILLORY is a New York Times bestselling author of nine novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese's Book Club selection The Proposal, and Flirting Lessons. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show.




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 learning modules. Each module is broken into three individual lessons that include video lectures as well as assignments, exercises, and opportunities for self-reflection. Modules are designed to be completed in sequential order as each lesson builds on top of the previous one. Library courses also include recordings from the Live Q&A sessions with the author completed during the live course.

CURRICULUM

  Welcome & Course Guide
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  Module One: How to Start
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  Module Two: Sell the Characters
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  Module Three: Sell the Story
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