Rio, a waitress in a small Texas town, graduated high school last week, survived being burned alive yesterday and today discovered the reason why. She is descended from Quetzalcoatl, Aztec god of Light and Knowledge and their bloodline has been hunted by rival god, Tezcatlipoca, Aztec god of War and his descendants for millennia. After learning more about her lineage, Rio decides to take the fight to the enemy and make the hunters the prey.

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dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

I think that the waitress's "maintenance"?objective goal of trying to stay alive?is good enough.? What greater personal objective goal can one fight for than one's own?life?

And there's another factor.? If she's a descendant of an Aztec god, surely part of her genetic inheritance would be the god's particular powers.? Which, it seems to me, ?she must learn to harness for the battle.? Yeah, echoes of Luke Skywalker and the Force, but this story?seem to be hero's journey? similar? to that? lucrative franchise.? (Which is why I said earlier that?I think this could be an origin story setting up a franchise.)

So something like:

After a Latina waitress discovers she's descended from a legendary?Aztec god, she must? develop?the powers she has inherited to?defeat rival gods?who have vowed to kill her.
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FFF Mentor · 7,850 pts

Avoid the character names (names mean nothing, usually you don't want names in a logline where every word is precious). Avoid places too unless they are absolutely necessary to understand the story (in my opinion this is not the case in this story).

"When a waitress discovers she's a descendant of an aztec god, she must fight a rival god if she wants to..." What is the main character real goal (not just "survive")? what is her flow to overcome?

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

>>>After learning more about her lineage, Rio decides to take the fight to the enemy and make the hunters the prey.

This is not as strong as the?previous iteration where??the rival Aztec? gods were trying to wipe out her and her bloodline making the conflict? as personal as it can get. Consequently, she takes up the fight because she must, the stakes are as high as they can get for her - it's do or die.

And I don't think she has to be a librarian.? I think waitress is better.? The more?humble the origins of the character, the?greater the character arc. ??Luke Skywalker was just?a country boy?until....

And how does she find out what the strife means and her destiny???The same way Luke did: ?with the timely training of a mentor.

And better than a fianc?e -- who may not be in the bloodline -- would be her family, who are in the bloodline.? After all, isn't that the objective goal of the rival gods, to wipe out her bloodline?