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When a young, restless girl runs away from her castle, she is stopped by her most trusted friend to find her castle is taken and her family is killed, now she must fight to take her kingdom back, unaware of the secrets that lie around her, starting with her most trusted friend.
>>>unaware of the secrets that lie around her, starting with her most trusted friend. Seems like a spoiler, a come-to-find-out Big Reveal.? A logine should not contain a spoiler, should not give a away a Big Reveal.
>>>unaware of the secrets that lie around her, starting with her most trusted friend.
Seems like a spoiler, a come-to-find-out Big Reveal.? A logine should not contain a spoiler, should not give a away a Big Reveal.
See lessAfter a scientific accident that leaves everyone dead and one with fire abilities, the survivor must travel to a sacred temple to learn how to control his abilities.
>>before someone else with his same abilities So the freak accident has happened before?? He's not the first?
>>before someone else with his same abilities
So the freak accident has happened before?? He’s not the first?
See lessAs his best friend – an alcoholic old Hollywood star – begs for death, a young reporter sees his own fate and takes a dramatic step to rewrite the story of his life.
Twinckler:I know only too well from personal experiences in my family, among my friends and in my work how destructive and demoralizing alcoholism is to the lives of tens of millions of people.? ?I have a deep respect for anyone who has beat the odds.? It takes a heroic struggle for an alcoholic toRead more
Twinckler:
I know only too well from personal experiences in my family, among my friends and in my work how destructive and demoralizing alcoholism is to the lives of tens of millions of people.? ?I have a deep respect for anyone who has beat the odds.? It takes a heroic struggle for an alcoholic to achieve and maintain sobriety.
But…
When it comes to drama, alcoholism is almost always a character flaw that does more than threaten a character’s health and happiness; it prevents the protagonist from achieving some goal beyond sobriety.? Like hold a marriage together, keep a job, salvage a career.
Consequently, achieving sobriety is a necessary means to a necessary end; it is not the end of the story itself.? Rather, it entails the resolution of a character arc? that is necessary to achieve an overarching objective goal.
Based upon what you have said, I can see that you can salvage a lot of material from you own personal experience for a compelling “B” story; that is, a subplot about your deeply conflicted relationship? with the Hollywood has-been.? But the subplot must be in service of the “A” story, the struggle of the protagonist for sobriety as a necessary step (or should I say 12 steps?)? to achieving some objective goal after he has achieved sobriety.
Therefore, I suggest that for the story you aspire to write “takes a dramatic step to rewrite the story of his life” needs to be defined more specifically.? It needs to be translated into a specific objective goal that he can only achieve after he achieves sobriety.? And the logline needs to be framed accordingly.
fwiw
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