Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
When down-to-earth Nadya parts ways with her frivolous sister, following their mother's death, she resigns herself to a life of toil and loneliness. So when love comes to her unexpectedly, even amidst the chaos of the Russian revolution, she takes hold of it with both hands. But can her newfound romance survive his lingering infatuation with a long-lost beauty destined to resurface?
Adapting a novel presents different challenges and opportunities when it comes time for loglines and pitches. Jane Austen's reputation is so well-established and illustrious that her name pre-sells any story and any character based upon her writing. (And her books have not just interesting characterRead more
Adapting a novel presents different challenges and opportunities when it comes time for loglines and pitches.
Jane Austen’s reputation is so well-established and illustrious that her name pre-sells any story and any character based upon her writing. (And her books have not just interesting characters, but strong ones who know what they want, more precisely, WHO they want.)
It may not be the case with the author of the book you are writing. I don’t know, since you’ve not disclosed the source, and I haven’t been able to ascertain it from the bread crumbs you have dropped.
>>it is more the notion of love at first sight (infatuation),
Reminds me of the character problem in “The Great Gatsby”. Daisy Buchanan is an empty vessel, a canvass on which Gatsby projects his dream girl. She’s a zero in whom Gatsby overinvests. And that’s the way Fitzgerald wrote her! And that’s the way she comes across in the movie. She’s a silly, shallow character. I have always thought the love story was insipid.
So why do they keep re-making the movie? I dunno. Maybe what attracts Hollyweird to the story, like flies to honey, is not the love story, but the razzle-dazzle of Jay’s opulent lifestyle, the decadence of the roaring 20’s.
See lessThe complexities of dealing with the suicide of a loved one, taint the innocence of a young boy's formative years. They leave in their wake a man with a powerful urge to mix pleasure and violence. The only thing keeping him from acting out his morbid fantasies is a gnawing conscience. But as his desires gain ground, the man he strives to be loses it's grip, plunging him into the blackness of his own broken mind. He ultimately seeks redemption, but he can never be free from the demons that torment him.
What Nir Shelter. Sounds a lot like "Dexter". There might be the basis for a compelling character here, but the description of his mental problem is too general and there is no sense of his specific strategy for dealing with his pathology. What's the story hook? Dexter's coping strategy was very speRead more
What Nir Shelter. Sounds a lot like “Dexter”.
There might be the basis for a compelling character here, but the description of his mental problem is too general and there is no sense of his specific strategy for dealing with his pathology. What’s the story hook?
Dexter’s coping strategy was very specific: he channeled his pathology into being a serial killer of criminals. That was the hook that sold the character, sold the series that was built around him.
See lessThe complexities of dealing with the suicide of a loved one, taint the innocence of a young boy's formative years. They leave in their wake a man with a powerful urge to mix pleasure and violence. The only thing keeping him from acting out his morbid fantasies is a gnawing conscience. But as his desires gain ground, the man he strives to be loses it's grip, plunging him into the blackness of his own broken mind. He ultimately seeks redemption, but he can never be free from the demons that torment him.
What Nir Shelter. Sounds a lot like "Dexter". There might be the basis for a compelling character here, but the description of his mental problem is too general and there is no sense of his specific strategy for dealing with his pathology. What's the story hook? Dexter's coping strategy was very speRead more
What Nir Shelter. Sounds a lot like “Dexter”.
There might be the basis for a compelling character here, but the description of his mental problem is too general and there is no sense of his specific strategy for dealing with his pathology. What’s the story hook?
Dexter’s coping strategy was very specific: he channeled his pathology into being a serial killer of criminals. That was the hook that sold the character, sold the series that was built around him.
See less