Description

Stop Letting AI Kill Your Romcom’s Comedy

The Romcom Outline Builder is a Claude plugin that builds market-informed romantic comedy outlines with built-in comedy guardrails. Every outline comes with a Comedy Architecture Map that ensures humor drives the romance structurally — not just decoratively.

The Problem

When Claude outlines a romantic comedy, it treats comedy as decoration — witty narrator observations pasted onto a standard contemporary romance plot. By the third act, the humor disappears entirely. The outline becomes a straight romance with no comedic DNA. Readers who picked up a romcom feel cheated when the laughs stop.

The Comedy Architecture System

This plugin embeds a 5-rule guardrail system that enforces comedic integrity at every chapter of your outline:

1. Setup/Payoff Structure: Every comedic moment has a clear setup before the payoff. No punchlines landing as non-sequiturs.
2. Callback Tracking: Running jokes are planted early and returned to later. Established bits aren’t abandoned.
3. Comedy-Emotion Integration: Comedy doesn’t disappear when emotions get serious. The funniest moments reveal emotional truth.
4. Character-Driven Comedy: Humor emerges from character personality and situation, not narrator commentary.
5. Comedic Escalation: Awkward situations and comedic stakes escalate across chapters, never repeating at the same level.

How It Works

1. Install the plugin and start a new chat
2. Say “romcom outline” to begin the 13-step interactive workflow
3. Answer setup questions about heat level, relationship type, comedy tone, and length
4. Review K-Lytics market data for trending romcom tropes
5. Choose from 5 generated story ideas (or provide your own concept)
6. Build character bios with romcom-specific fields: Comedy Style, Comedic Flaw, Worst-Case Scenario
7. Map the Comedy Architecture: running jokes, escalation plan, comedy-emotion milestones
8. Get a full chapter-by-chapter outline with comedy tags and callback tracking

Heat Level & Relationship Options

• Heat Levels: Sweet/Clean, Moderate, Steamy, Scorching
• Relationship Types: MF, FF, MM, Multi, Non-binary
• Lengths: Novella (20-50K), Standard Novel (70-90K), Extended (90-130K)

Genre Pillars

• Comedy as Romance Engine: The humor IS the romance. Strip the comedy and the romance collapses.
• Emotional Authenticity Under the Laughs: Every joke hides a real feeling. Comedy is the vehicle for emotional truth.

What You Get

• ✓ 5-rule Comedy Architecture System with per-chapter enforcement
• ✓ 13-step interactive outline workflow
• ✓ Comedy Architecture Map (running jokes, escalation plan, comedy-emotion milestones)
• ✓ Character bios with Comedy Style, Comedic Flaw, and Worst-Case Scenario fields
• ✓ Chapter-by-chapter outline with comedy tags, callback tracking, and escalation markers
• ✓ K-Lytics market trend integration
• ✓ Names Avoidance List for fresh character naming
• ✓ Comprehensive romcom trope reference
• ✓ Final .docx outline ready for the Romcom Author plugin

How to Use

1. Install via Claude Desktop’s plugin manager
2. Create a new chat and activate the plugin
3. Say “romcom outline” or “outline a romcom”
4. Follow the 13-step interactive workflow
5. Receive your complete outline as a .docx file

What’s Inside

• Comedy Architecture System: 5 genre-specific rules with per-chapter enforcement
• Workflow Guide: 13-step interactive process from concept to complete outline
• Trope Reference: 18+ romcom tropes with comedic potential analysis
• Failure Mode Examples: Concrete examples of what goes wrong without guardrails

Requirements

• Claude Desktop (latest version)
• Claude subscription (API access)

Version 1.0.0 | Romcom Genre Plugin Factory

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