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A hostile takeover of America causes a couple to stop bickering and start working together.
Never start a logline with "When such-and-such happens, a person must..." It's weak. No one cares about events, we care about people. Introduce the people we should care about, what's happening to them, what they intend to do about it, and what's at stake if they fail. If your ending is that they faRead more
Never start a logline with “When such-and-such happens, a person must…” It’s weak. No one cares about events, we care about people. Introduce the people we should care about, what’s happening to them, what they intend to do about it, and what’s at stake if they fail.
If your ending is that they fail, don’t mention that part in the logline – that’s the part people need to read to discover. Nothing wrong with a downer ending, but the goal of a logline is to get people interested enough to read more, and you get people interested by presenting compelling characters with an opportunity to succeed or fail – and the initial interest lies in whether or not they will, or how they will.
See lessAfter waking up in cells with only a 12-hour countdown and a row of switches on the wall, two individuals must figure out how to work together in isolation in order to escape.
Saw with switches... What is it about the cell they wake up in that makes it scarey? What's the danger they face? Also, what's unique about these particular characters?
Saw with switches…
What is it about the cell they wake up in that makes it scarey? What’s the danger they face?
Also, what’s unique about these particular characters?
See lessWhen six brutal water-related murders are uncovered on the same day, an aquaphobic detective must uncover the killer?s identity as the clues become increasingly more personal.
While I think mrliteral's version is an improvement, it still leaves me mystified as to? what it means that "the clues become increasingly more personal."? More personal in what sense?? That the clues implicate the detective as the prime suspect? Or that the clues implicate him as the next victim?AnRead more
While I think mrliteral’s version is an improvement, it still leaves me mystified as to? what it means that “the clues become increasingly more personal.”? More personal in what sense?? That the clues implicate the detective as the prime suspect? Or that the clues implicate him as the next victim?
And what is the story hook?
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