Week 6 Prompt Response

Back in December, I saw this very funny take on Hallmark Christmas movies called "What's the Plot of Your Pandemic Hallmark Movie?" I'll include the full image below, but in case it's hard to see, here is the general idea of how it works: you create your own movie plot by picking items from lists (based on things like your current shirt color, the last thing you ate, the last person you texted, etc...).

My hysterical movie plot would have been this: "An orphaned party planner finds herself stranded in her hometown during a pandemic lockdown, after she came home to be a bridesmaid for the 20th time. Against her better judgement, she falls in love with a centaur. Together, they learn the true meaning of Christmas."

I think a big display of something similar to this would be a fun way to promote romance books in a library. Instead of creating a pandemic Hallmark movie, patrons could be choosing items from a list to create the plot of a romance book. Both Hallmark movies and romance books often have predicable elements that could be used in the lists: (small towns, quaint festivals, starting over, old flames, etc...) A library staff person could create the lists for the different sections based on actual books in the collection, while also adding some elements for humor. Then, after patrons create a funny romance plot, they could look at a display of books/movies that had items similar to the lists. I'm imagining a display of books and movies with speech bubbles taped to them saying things like "cowboy", "desert island", "ice cream store owner", etc... any kind of item from the Create Your Own Plot list. I think this would be a lot of fun.