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However, it looks like you write character driven dramas and those are much more challenging, so no wonder you struggle with composing loglines for your stories. All I know is that I always start with character and dive into their painful journey to unity. Maybe I find all this hard because non of my scripts are about a single mission to Mars. So I wonder, since my dramas are about painful struggles (drug abuse, coming out, spiritual awakenings etc.) and at the core, often hiding a secret from friends or family because *fill in the emotional core wound* -ĭo I have a hard time writing a logline simply because my plot is too weak compared to the theme? Maybe I have too many themes? Maybe my plot is not simple or clear enough? Are my stories “blurry” as in there’s too much going on so I can’t easily pick out the main plot?Īnd further how do you then balance theme vs plot in a logline, or is the logline for plot only? If it’s plot only, how will I then be able to “advertise” and “tease” the reader with the emotional core and what’s really going on in the story? I also have very few characters in my scripts. I do outline before I write and I strive to have a clear beginning, middle and end and build all the way to the climax.
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Yes, one could argue I might do things in the wrong order if I don’t write the logline first, but that’s just the way my writer’s heart works. I write dramas and I almost always find it hard to write a logline.
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In a recent online screenwriting class, one of the writers in the group posted this: