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How is this Logline?
Please, don't use the logline space as a chat room. I see you have used three entries for the same logline. Please use the comments space, instead.
Please, don’t use the logline space as a chat room. I see you have used three entries for the same logline. Please use the comments space, instead.
See lesshers about him through his victory.
A logline is a brief synopsis?of a story. A? logline has a lead character described in to or three words (for example: An uptight banker) Then something happens to the lead that disrupts his (or her) life. (His wife leaves him for being too boring) This causes the lead to have a specific and well-deRead more
A logline is a brief synopsis?of a story.
A? logline has a lead character described in to or three words (for example: An uptight banker)
Then something happens to the lead that disrupts his (or her) life. (His wife leaves him for being too boring)
This causes the lead to have a specific and well-defined goal. (He decides to prove to his wife he is not boring by starting a rock band)
But there is conflict because someone or something is standing in the way of the lead character achieving their goal. (The band sucks and they only have two weeks untill they play a gig his wife will be attending)
So now I am looking at your logline for a short story and the question is:
See lessWho is the lead character? What do they want? And what is standing in their way?
On the brink of a new type of technological and societal global war, a charismatic figure rises through the political sphere using Social Media as he faces adversity from those who would profit from a war succeeding.
Best if you post new versions of a logline further down the same thread instead of re writing the original post - this way we can all see/track the progress and changes you make. War is better for your story - it has clearer and more immediate stakes. However, I'd argue that it's still unclear whatRead more
Best if you post new versions of a logline further down the same thread instead of re writing the original post – this way we can all see/track the progress and changes you make.
War is better for your story – it has clearer and more immediate stakes.
However, I’d argue that it’s still unclear what starts the story off and how it will end. What event causes the war to start? Is it a big political assassination? If so, could the main character be somehow related to the victim? If you do make the main character a relation of the victim, you can make the story more personal and add the logic of why he (over all others) must rise up and save the people.
You need to keep your descriptions immediately clear to all readers. This means that no matter who reads it, they should be able to get it straight away without the need to think about or search for the meaning of the terminology in the logline.? What does a “…new type of technological and societal global war…” mean? No need to answer this, just think of a better way to word it so that the reader doesn’t wonder what you mean. In my opinion, war is war – best keep it that way and simply describe it as WW3.
Lastly, facing adversity is the very nature of characters in good stories – making that statement on its own doesn’t inform the reader. What must the main character do before the end of the story? Must he end the war? Win it? Save a handful of people?
See lessWhatever it is he MUST do you MUST describe it in the logline.