So. What's The Difference?

Writer Billy Mernit (Imagine Me and You, due in bookstores next year [and, I'm betting Billy will be working on a screenplay adaptation soon]) explains how Chris Rock's 'I Think I Love My Wife' is different from mainstream comedies, but similar to hard-to-explain dramedies by Rohmer, but not too similar or too different, and the (probable) reasons for the above-mentioned similarities/differences.

Also, Billy explains the difference between writing in 'Screenwriter' mode and 'Novelist' mode.

It's all good stuff.

Getting The Bones Down

Billy Mernit's novel, the formerly entitled Making Up, now titled Imagine Me and You, is scheduled for release next year. (See how my suggested title, Match, did in the contest to help find a new title after his publisher informed him they were not cozying up to Making up -- so close, so very close!).

Mernit's guide to screenwriting, Writing the Romantic Comedy, has gotten lots of good comments and his blog Living the Romantic Comedy should be a regular stop for the aspiring writer. There's good insight into the process, and, if you post a comment, Billy replies.

In his latest post Billy runs down his process for outlining a novel. Check it out.

Name This Book

Billy Mernit, author of "Writing the Romantic Comedy", faces a quandary: what to name his new novel. Seems his publisher, Random House, doesn't like his title of choice, "Making Up", and Billy, being somewhat involved in editing the manuscript, has asked his readers to help conjure up a title more in line with the needs and wants of a major publishing outfit. He outlines his story thusly:

Desperate to win back his estranged wife, a man invents an imaginary lover to make her jealous...and then gets into real trouble when this fantasy woman becomes real to him.

Billy is humbly accepting suggestions. (Fabulous prizes if your title is chosen)