Write your own Rom Com!
An 8 week writing worksop/slumber party
Like Kate Winslet’s 78 year old neighbor/best friend/potential love interest says to her in The Holiday, “you’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God’s sake!” For women, men and non-binary, this class will give you the opportunity to self reflect and draw upon your own love lives to write your perfect rom com script
What you’ll get!
An 8 week workshop where we’ll go over the story beats, world building, tone, character, and dialogue that make up a great rom com
Weekly in class, rom-com writing prompts that draw from your own life to get your creative juices flowing
Walking away with a finished outline
Your homework will be to watch rom coms and fall in love? Or at the very least get over your shitty ex.
Our life and our stories carry the best characters. In this class you’ll learn how to pull from your world and your stories to create the rom com of your dreams. Each week I’ll select specific rom com scripts and clips to showcase the elements that make it the genre you love. Elements such as world building. Are you a NYC rom com or an indie Minnesota rom com? And tone. Are you a You’ve Got Mail or a True Romance rom com?
During our class/slumber party you’ll ask yourself the hard hitting rom com questions like, are you in an Indie Rom Com? Or a friend Rom Com? A holiday rom com? A teen rom com? A rom dram?? A sci-fi romcom? (yes, this is a genre) Is your best friend Rupert Everett? Or Bonnie hunt? Are you a Meg or a Salma? A John Cusack??
This will be a fun and fulfilling journey where you’ll learn not only how to write a rom com but how to write about yourself!
Class Times:
Thursdays starting June 13th 7pm - 9pm PST
Saturdays starting June 15th 11am - 1pm PST
Cost is $250
Feel free to email me at avstanczak@gmail.com with any questions. To sign up PayPal or Zelle to ashleighstanczakproduction@gmail.com
My writing and directing has been awarded at the HBO women in Comedy Festival, the NBC Universal Shorts Fest, and the Austin Film Festival. You may have seen Girl Brain, the short film I directed on Hulu. Or the HBO Women in Comedy award winning short I directed, Parent Teacher Conference. Or maybe you caught an episode I directed for the Funny or Die series Coach Von Pidgeon. Or the comedy short New Hair, which I co-wrote, directed and sold to Funny or Die. As a writer, my pilot Kill Me? and my feature script, The Life of Fat Girls, were both finalists in the Austin Film Festival. I’ve also written for Refinery29, was published in A Blaze Imprint and was head writer and director for iO West Comedy Network. Some of my other comedic short films were selected for the LA Funny Women’s Festival,