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Humanity huddles on the Ring, desperate to survive; cascades of genetic changes have altered the very nature of the Earth and everything that still lives upon it. What will you do when you discover this is all according to plan?
Who is the lead character? What do they want? What is standing in their way?
Who is the lead character?
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What is standing in their way?
A researcher hired by NASA to find a wormhole during an alien invasion.
Isn't it a little superfluous to say from outer space? Where else would an alien invasion come from? And why does he only have seven days to do it if he has a time machine? Or is there some limitation that only allows him to travel seven days into the past? I remember seeing a few episodes of a shorRead more
Isn’t it a little superfluous to say from outer space? Where else would an alien invasion come from?
And why does he only have seven days to do it if he has a time machine? Or is there some limitation that only allows him to travel seven days into the past? I remember seeing a few episodes of a short-lived TV show with the premise that they always sent him seven days into the past.
See lessA team of intrepid explorers develop the first faster than light drive to take humanity to the stars. The only thing in their way is humanity itself.
Okay...so what happens? How is humanity an obstacle in this story? What are the personal stakes for one or all of these intrepid folks? Loglines should be one sentence, and faster-than-light should be hyphenated in this context. Would the explorers really be the ones to develop the technology? Are tRead more
Okay…so what happens? How is humanity an obstacle in this story? What are the personal stakes for one or all of these intrepid folks?
Loglines should be one sentence, and faster-than-light should be hyphenated in this context.
Would the explorers really be the ones to develop the technology? Are they engineers and scientists in their spare time? This may seem like a minor thing to pick on but a logline with questionable logic means people are questioning aspects of the story rather than being intrigued by them. Also remember how terrible Fant4stic is, with those who build the thing deciding to be the ones who use it.
While this does successfully establish the genre, it doesn’t provide much in the way of the four main things it needs: protagonist, antagonist, conflict, stakes. One method of crafting a quality logline is to write a big long rambling run-on sentence summarizing all the necessary detail, then trim it down and juggle the phrasing until it’s packed with information but clear and succinct.
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