I love lists.
I love writing to do lists and checking each item off.
I love informational lists too.
The January 2009 issue of
Real Simple magazine is devoted to lists. Alas, not romance and romance writer lists.
Today in Seekerville, we correct that omission.
Romance Lists
Top Ten Romantic Comedies
- 1.City Lights
- Annie Hall
- It Happened One Night
- Roman Holiday
- The Philadelphia Story
- When Harry Met Sally
- Adam's Rib
- Moonstruck
- Harold and Maude
- Sleepless In Seattle
Top Romance Classics
My list in random order.
1. Princess Bride
2. When Harry Met Sally
3. Jerry Maguire
4. Working Girl
5. Moonstruck
6. Hope Floats
7. An Affair to Remember
8. Casablanca
9. Sabrina
10. Sleepless in Seattle
11. While You Were Sleeping
12. Ghost
13. The Way We Were
14. Breakfast at Tiffany's
15. An Officer and A Gentleman
16. West Side Story
17. Top Gun
18. Becoming Jane
19. Emma
20. Pride and Prejudice
21. Out of Sight
22. The Big Easy
23. Gone With The Wind
24. The Thomas Crown Affair
25. Bull Durham
Memorable Romantic Movie Lines
Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.~ Meet Joe Black
I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.~ When Harry Met Sally
I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is.~Jerry Maguire
You... you complete me.~ Jerry Maguire.
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.~Princess Bride
Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end.~Don Juan DeMarco
Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. ~Sleepless in Seattle
Top 100 Romance Novels of The 20th Century
by the readers of
The Romance Reader. Here are the first 20:
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. Dream Man by Linda Howard
3. It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4. McKenzie’s Mountain by Linda Howard
5. Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereaux
6. Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
7. The Bride by Julie Garwood
8. Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
9. Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
10. Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer
11. Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaught
12. Naked in Death by J. D. Robb
13. Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss
14. Honor’s Splendor by Julie Garwood
15. Paradise by Judith McNaught
16. Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught
17. Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
18. The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss
19. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
20. Born in Fire by Nora Roberts
The Subgenres Within The Romance Publishing Industry (as defined by RWA):
- Contemporary Series
- Historical
- Inspirational
- Novels with Strong Romantic Elements
- Paranormal
- Regency
- Romantic SuspenseYoung Adult
Book Lists:New York Times FictionBarnes & Noble Top 100 In Books
Publisher's Weekly Fiction Bestseller ListThe RITA AwardsECPA BestsellersThe National INDIE BestsellersUSA Today BestsellersCBA Bestseller Lists
The 20 Master Plots by Ronald B Tobias 1. Quest
2. Adventure
3. Pursuit
4. Rescue
5. Escape
6. Revenge
7. The Riddle
8. Rivalry
9. Underdog
10. Temptation
11. Metamorphosis
12. Transformation
13. Maturation
14. Love
15. Forbidden Love
16. Sacrifice
17. Discovery
18. Wretched Excess
19 & 20. Ascension and Descension
Resource Books for Writers
Goal, Motivation & Conflict by Debra Dixon
Scene & Structure by Jack Bickham
Write Tight by William Brohaugh
No More Rejections by Alice Orr
Creating Unforgetabble Characters by Linda Seger
Characters, Emotions & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress
Creating Characters by Dwight V Swain
Fiction is Folks by Robert Newton Peck
The Comic Toolbox by Joh Vorhaus
Screenplay by Sid Field
How to Tell a Story by Peter Rubie and Gary Provost
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Plot by Anson Dibell
Writing the Novel by Lawrence Block
Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger
Writing the Romantic Comedy by Billy Mernit
The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
No Plot, No Problem by Chris Baty
Deep Writing by Eric Maisel
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes by Jack Bickham
And finally, because you are my friends,
I am going to share my very own
To Do List:
1. Get off Unpubbed Island
2. If I can't get off Unpubbed Island get rid of Seeker who snores
3. Buy Armani suits in charcoal so I look more like Nora
4. Practice signing my name with flair
5. See if Susan Elizabeth Phillips wants to collaborate on a book
6. Ask my grandmother to stop writing on my wall on Facebook
7. Send Crystal Laine Miller chocolate and often
8. Remind my agent who I am
9. Find high school year book photo for my Press Kit
10. Write six books
