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A cyborg hunter must protect a young woman by killing a cyborg before he turns her into one.
I don't think loglines typically assume familiarity with a particular character, nor do they generally include any names. You can easily just turn that "biggest mission yet" into the inciting incident. Also, you can add some urgency by taking out the uncertainty implied with the word "might". PersonRead more
I don’t think loglines typically assume familiarity with a particular character, nor do they generally include any names. You can easily just turn that “biggest mission yet” into the inciting incident. Also, you can add some urgency by taking out the uncertainty implied with the word “might”. Personally, I still think it’s a bit dry though. I want some sort of reason why I think the cyborg hunter might not succeed, which could be easily added with an adjective. My take on this:
After a traumatized cyborg hunter manages to escape from the cyborg homeworld after months of torture, he takes on one last mission, to go back and rescue a princess from the cyborgs before they turn her into one of them.
See lessWhen a magical spirit reveals the world’s destructive fate, an introverted high school girl must flee her privileged upbringing and journey through an impoverished land to find a saviour, which she later learns is actually herself, and confront the powerful government of the city before the world collapses beneath her feet.
The low-hanging fruit given this current iteration of the logline is that you can easily pull out "and journey through an impoverished land to find a saviour, which she later learns is actually herself,". That part is the plot, but doesn't need to be in the logline. So you have the protagonist, theRead more
The low-hanging fruit given this current iteration of the logline is that you can easily pull out “and journey through an impoverished land to find a saviour, which she later learns is actually herself,”. That part is the plot, but doesn’t need to be in the logline.
So you have the protagonist, the high school girl, the goal… to save the world… the conflict… confronting the powerful government. The stakes… end of the world. The urgency… have to do the goal before the world ends….
The inciting incident I think you should change. Learning about the end of the world is a lost opportunity to tie in HOW a high school student ended up in this mess. Maybe have the inciting incident be like when the kids walked into the closet in Narnia. The “how they ended up in never-never land”.
You can trim it down, like for example with my first suggestion, but… all the pieces in the formula are there, which is great. But I think ironing out the hook will be more challenging.
Why do people care about your story? I see this notion of a privileged girl journeying into an impoverished land, which is interesting, but it doesn’t look like she has to overcome that privilege in order to save the world. It’s like when I toured Ward 9 on a bus tour a year after Hurricane Katrina happened. However, Ebenezer Scrooge must learn generosity to save Tiny Tim, for instance. That is a meaningful character arc that is interesting to the reader.
I’m thinking something like this:
When a privileged high school girl is lured by a magical spirit into another world, she must lead the rebellion of its impoverished, enslaved people and overthrow a powerful monarchy before she is allowed to return home.
Okay…it doesn’t have to go all Braveheart…. can keep it non-Bravehearty…
When a privileged high school girl is lured by a magical spirit into another world, she must save an impoverished, enslaved people from a powerful monarchy before she is allowed to return home.
Either way, you don’t need any details of a mountain, or how she tries to save them.
See lessWhen a gang member’s girl scout kid sister threatens to disown him after he was convicted for vandalism yet again, he promises to help her make the entire town litter-free during his remaining days of freedom.
This is much stronger in my opinion. I would consider doing a bit of an American History X type thing, where the kid sister is maybe caught tagging her school or something and the protagonist doesn't want her to follow his path. Maybe he barely speaks to his parents because of his criminal activitieRead more
This is much stronger in my opinion.
I would consider doing a bit of an American History X type thing, where the kid sister is maybe caught tagging her school or something and the protagonist doesn’t want her to follow his path. Maybe he barely speaks to his parents because of his criminal activities but he tries to meet up with his sister without them knowing because they really don’t approve and believe he will lead her down the same path. On the flip side, maybe his parents ignored him when his baby sister came along. This would give more scope for conflict externally and internally.
Either way, it’s definitely getting there. I can see this as a Dramedy so I reckon you could have it in either Comedy or Drama and it would work.
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