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What Richiev said about constructing a genuine dilemma is correct.
But loglines are about actions and goals, not about dilemmas. ?Specifically, a logline should be about a goal decided upon, a choice actually made, at the end of the 1st Act. ?The choice may lead to a 2nd or 3rd Act dilemma, but that is beyond the scope of a logline.
So what does the writer do after making the discoveries about his wife and his mentor?
What Richiev said about constructing a genuine dilemma is correct.
But loglines are about actions and goals, not about dilemmas. ?Specifically, a logline should be about a goal decided upon, a choice actually made, at the end of the 1st Act. ?The choice may lead to a 2nd or 3rd Act dilemma, but that is beyond the scope of a logline.
So what does the writer do after making the discoveries about his wife and his mentor?
The problem with this dilemma is that upon reading the logline I don't see any reason he wouldn't expose the mentor and wife who betrayed him.
His wife and mentor betraying him is the reason he should expose them not a reason to not expose them.
Here would be an example of the lead character on the horns of a dilemma:
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"When his mentor steals his breakthrough idea with the help of his unfaithful wife, an aspiring writer must choose whether or not to expose them, knowing his wife could reveal a devastating secret from his past."
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Now we have a dilemma, he wants to get even but first he must neutralize?the chance of his wife blackmailing him with his dark past.