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A detective fiction writer becomes convinced her lover’s death wasn’t a suicide and must prove his brilliant wife is a killer before becoming the next victim.
Added a new layer of paranoia to keep me on my toes. “A paranoid noir author convinced her lover’s death was not a suicide sets out to find the killer before she becomes the next victim“ Take care.
Added a new layer of paranoia to keep me on my toes.
“A paranoid noir author convinced her lover’s death was not a suicide sets out to find the killer before she becomes the next victim“
Take care.
See lessA meek middle-aged clerk has to escape a violent interrogation by a determined CIA agent who identifies him as the nation’s number one terrorist menace.
Q: “how can one pull off the promise of a twist without giving away the twist?” A: For me, Genre is key and carries with it an inherent payoff for the viewer. Check out this “The Sixth Sense” logline in your Thriller genre family: “A psychologist struggles to cure a troubled boy who is haunted by aRead more
Q: “how can one pull off the promise of a twist without giving away the twist?”
A: For me, Genre is key and carries with it an inherent payoff for the viewer.
Check out this “The Sixth Sense” logline in your Thriller genre family:
“A psychologist struggles to cure a troubled boy who is haunted by a bizarre affliction – he sees dead people” [CREDIT: J GIDEON SARANTINOS].
Notice we have a protag, story goal, obstacles, and can envision three-acts, but one of the biggest twists in movie history [SPOILER ALERT! The psychologist is – a ghost] is not mentioned. Thus, I revert to my original statement of reviewing the Examples header link to help construct your story basics in a format where we/I can assist – then zhuzh up from there.
Take care.
See lessConvinced by prominent comedians that marriage will make him funnier, a struggling comic takes their joke seriously and elopes only to find his bride wants a marriage so peaceful that in order to find the comedy in it, he’ll have to up his game.
Cool, the fun for me was in the naive journey to be funnier. Went with that, make this yours. You could up the ante by having him believe he has to marry a rival comedian for the magic to work ;) "When being told marriage will make him funnier, a naive comedian has 90 days to find a bride before theRead more
Cool, the fun for me was in the naive journey to be funnier.
Went with that, make this yours. You could up the ante by having him believe he has to marry a rival comedian for the magic to work 😉
“When being told marriage will make him funnier, a naive comedian has 90 days to find a bride before the San Francisco Comedy Competition”
Take care.
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