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"Dillon's brother, Seth, dies ten years earlier and Dillon goes back in time to become friends with him and save him." Copyright
Why does he wait 10 years? Why didn't he go back sooner? What's the plot trigger, the inciting incident that compels him to go back in time? And what does "save him" mean? Save him from mortal death -- redo the past? Spiritual damnation in the afterlife? Or...?
Why does he wait 10 years? Why didn’t he go back sooner? What’s the plot trigger, the inciting incident that compels him to go back in time?
And what does “save him” mean? Save him from mortal death — redo the past? Spiritual damnation in the afterlife? Or…?
See lessWith most of his Arctic drilling barge crew dead, an up-and-coming oil exec struggles to manage the crisis ?by the book?, but a primordial fungus brought up from under the ice begins to infect the staff of the local hospital turning them into violent sexual predators furiously spreading their spores.
This logline sets up a situation for a possible plot, but it doesn't dilineate the plot itself. And a logline is a precis of a plot, no of a situation. What must the executive do about the fungus infection? What can he do as he's corporate executive, not a doctor or a scientist? There seems to be aRead more
This logline sets up a situation for a possible plot, but it doesn’t dilineate the plot itself. And a logline is a precis of a plot, no of a situation.
What must the executive do about the fungus infection? What can he do as he’s corporate executive, not a doctor or a scientist? There seems to be a disjunction between character and plot, a mismatch between the dramatic problem and the skills of the protagonist to deal with it.
See lessWith most of his Arctic drilling barge crew dead, an up-and-coming oil exec struggles to manage the crisis ?by the book?, but a primordial fungus brought up from under the ice begins to infect the staff of the local hospital turning them into violent sexual predators furiously spreading their spores.
This logline sets up a situation for a possible plot, but it doesn't dilineate the plot itself. And a logline is a precis of a plot, no of a situation. What must the executive do about the fungus infection? What can he do as he's corporate executive, not a doctor or a scientist? There seems to be aRead more
This logline sets up a situation for a possible plot, but it doesn’t dilineate the plot itself. And a logline is a precis of a plot, no of a situation.
What must the executive do about the fungus infection? What can he do as he’s corporate executive, not a doctor or a scientist? There seems to be a disjunction between character and plot, a mismatch between the dramatic problem and the skills of the protagonist to deal with it.
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