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When Sam Blake, a successful hitman, discovers he has a fatal disease he vows to never kill an innocent person again, but the only way a hitman retires is to sign The Agenda, a list of targets, and compete against other hitmen to see who can rack up the most kills…so Sam decides to eliminate the competition.
The hook that makes this interesting is not the fact that he's dying, but that in order to get around his "no more killing innocents" vow, and yet still partake in the "The Agenda" he decides to kill all the other hitman (because, as hitmen, they are not innocent). I would find a better motivation tRead more
The hook that makes this interesting is not the fact that he’s dying, but that in order to get around his “no more killing innocents” vow, and yet still partake in the “The Agenda” he decides to kill all the other hitman (because, as hitmen, they are not innocent).
See lessI would find a better motivation than that he is already dying, because as dpg suggests, if he’s dead anyway, why do we care if he makes it out clean or not? Give your protagonist a different, but just as primal and high stakes reason, for wanting to get out. A threat to his family? His kid?
An astrophysicist embarks on secret mission to create a new planet, hoping to end a global war before an enemy tribe turns his people against their own.
Agreed - nothing new to add. Too confusing to engage my interest.
Agreed – nothing new to add. Too confusing to engage my interest.
See lessA young writer is on the run from a street enforcer sworn to kill himself if he fails to kill his victim.
I think the introduction of the idea that the villain will kill himself if he fails in his task makes him the more interesting character, but also makes it unclear at what stage it would be decided that he had failed? Like, will he hunt him for the rest of his life? Or is there some point or place tRead more
I think the introduction of the idea that the villain will kill himself if he fails in his task makes him the more interesting character, but also makes it unclear at what stage it would be decided that he had failed? Like, will he hunt him for the rest of his life? Or is there some point or place the writer could get to that would mean, inarguably, that he had “won”?
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