Why write romantic comedy? I love writing light as air stories that float, characters just this side of crazy that are forever getting themselves into preposterous predicaments. I’m not sure why this is, exactly. I think it’s because I love to laugh. Life isn’t always funny—there’s enough tragedy in everyone’s personal life and in the collective lives of people to fill more volumes than any library could hold. Laughter is like a balm, like water on a troubled brow. It won’t solve the world’s troubles, anymore than it can put me or anyone into a perpetual state of happiness. But it can soothe down those troubles and for a little while, when we laugh, we feel as though the world might just still be an okay kind of place and maybe life is good, Why write romantic comedy? I love writing light as air stories that float, characters just this side of crazy that are forever getting themselves into preposterous predicaments. I’m not sure why this is, exactly. I think it’s because I love to laugh. Life isn’t always funny—there’s enough tragedy in everyone’s personal life and in the collective lives of people to fill more volumes than any library could hold. Laughter is like a balm, like water on a troubled brow. It won’t solve the world’s troubles, anymore than it can put me or anyone into a perpetual state of happiness. But it can soothe down those troubles and for a little while, when we laugh, we feel as though the world might just still be an okay kind of place and maybe life is good, after all. When I first began writing, I read a wise adage that said ‘write what’s in your heart.’ More often than not, my heart seeks to find the joy in being alive. My heart wants to dance and sing without regard to who’s watching. It wants to spread the joy around, to joke a little, to bask in the sun. In spending time with the halfway crazy and sometimes funny characters that inhabit my imagination, I can do all those things my heart loves to do—I can let it dance around free and unrestricted by the things in life that sometimes threatened to make it heavier than stone. My greatest hope is that you’ll bring these characters into your imagination, too. You’ll allow them to lighten the load and to remember life is worth living. If they make you happy, if they make you laugh, then that is, for me, the greatest gift of all....more
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