![]() ![]() To show you how a meet cute can be used in just about any subgenres, we've created some new ideas for meet-cutes in a couple of different romance subgenres: A well-executed meet-cute will read like the most adorable (yet plausible) ‘how I met your grandmother’ story. You want to warm the cockles of your readers’ hearts, not send their eyes rolling into the backs of their heads. The danger you run with meet-cutes is that they can be too saccharine. ![]() (image: Working Title) Beware the sugar rush Just a girl standing in front of a boy in a bookstore. A classic of romantic comedies, ‘meet-cutes’ are scenes where our lovers first encounter each other - often in hilarious, adorable, or serendipitous ways.Įxamples of classic meet-cutes include Hugh Grant impressing Hollywood star Julia Roberts while confronting a book thief in Notting Hill (then spilling orange juice over her) or stand-up Kumail Nanjiani being heckled - in a positive way - by his lover-to-be at the start of The Big Sick. ![]()
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