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A girl obsessed with UFO’s builds a small device to alert us, when the device goes off during a storm she encounters a strange figure.
If sighting the alien is the inciting incident, what dramatic question, stated in one sentence, does that raise that the rest of the plot will answer -- or at least hint at an answer?
If sighting the alien is the inciting incident, what dramatic question, stated in one sentence, does that raise that the rest of the plot will answer — or at least hint at an answer?
See lessWhen a humiliated teen gets the ability to see the desires of anyone he touches, he gets a shot at outmaneuvering the girl who brought him down.
While fantastic stories don't need an explanation for magic, they do need an inciting incident. ?And with the incident comes an implied switch ?or condition that will turn off the magic. ?Or a ?deadline, a ticking clock -- like in the fairy tale of ?Cinderella. And the magic must be directly relevanRead more
While fantastic stories don’t need an explanation for magic, they do need an inciting incident. ?And with the incident comes an implied switch ?or condition that will turn off the magic. ?Or a ?deadline, a ticking clock — like in the fairy tale of ?Cinderella.
And the magic must be directly relevant to the plot, to the character’s dramatic problem. ?Whatever the teenager visualizes must seem to be the solution to his problem. Initially that is, and then…
So in the logline, the magic should be defined in relation to the character’s objective goal, the problem he needs to solve.
See lessWhen a relentless "superposse" forces two notorious Western outlaws to flee the United States, they start over again robbing banks in Bolivia.
They were not pursued by government super cops. ?They were pursued by hired guns, employed by the owner of the Union Pacific Railroad, ?E. H. Harriman. ?And their m.o. for evading them was to flee to Bolivia. (BTW: ?William Goldman's script is a classic, ?A must-study for any wannabe writer.)
They were not pursued by government super cops. ?They were pursued by hired guns, employed by the owner of the Union Pacific Railroad, ?E. H. Harriman. ?And their m.o. for evading them was to flee to Bolivia.
(BTW: ?William Goldman’s script is a classic, ?A must-study for any wannabe writer.)
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