Danielle Krage interviews Billy Mernit - screenwriter, novelist and author of Writing The Romantic Comedy: The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories for the Screen. Billy has served as a story analyst and script consultant at Universal Pictures, an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and has published some 20 romance novels under a female pen name. In this conversation, he shares really practical ways of approaching writing romantic comedy, including in today’s landscape of mixing genres.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:00 Love for Rom-Coms
02:25 The Triangle and the Ensemble
07:43 Favourite Rom-Coms
13:16 The Importance of World
17:48 The Connection Between Image and Theme
25:36 Mixing Genres in Rom-Coms
31:06 Rom-Coms in Series Format
34:07 Personal Development as a Writer
37:14 Music and Writing
10:15 The Importance of Characters in Romantic Comedies
20:30 The Role of Conflict in Romantic Comedies
30:45 The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories
39:41 Recommendation and Conclusion

You can find out more about Billy and his work here:
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https://billymernit.com

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