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Today's Topic – Hallmark Christmas Movies are like a Romanic Fantasy Adventure, and no this in not a drinking game
I must admit something. I love Christmas movies. I have watched hours and hours of Hallmark Christmas movies. You might think they are horribly formulaic and they are. However, I have learned two very important lessons about them. They are great for learning structure for stories and they are … Fantasy movies.
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Podcast Show Flow
- Formulas are not evil
- Hint Genre is a formula
- Romance and Erotica at the bestselling books
- Making them familiar like family
- Christmas is a community celebration, Family, and Faith
- One of the leads use to love Christmas or the hidden Grinch
- Love taking story inspiration from classics
- The hidden Christmas Carol
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Big bad foe
- Use Tropes for characters
- The Odinic Wanderer, The Spiteful one, The Unlucky one, the sappy one
- Magic abound both high and low magic
- Artifacts and Magicians
- Plus the season its self
- If you do not worry if people know it is a formula you can crank out the work so have fun with it
- Give Characters formula names for a bonus
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