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Writer's Club: Part 1 - Single Sentence Pitches
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:35 am
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:35 am
I'm going to start doing the Writer's Club thread every few weeks or so. Just a place for us to spitball things. Exchange emails in case we want to write more. Or whatever. I'll keep it topic to topic. Just to kind of give us directions. You don't have to be a writer to join, if you have an idea maybe one of us can run with it.
Serious, no jokes. I know we have some creatives out there who would want to/do write. Might be a good place to write some ideas that you don't feel like writing, but others might.
Note: I would bookmark these threads if you need to keep up to date. I don't know how many there will be.
I've been feeling particularly creative recently due to all the editing my friends are asking me to do. But a lot of that has to do with editing ideas.
So let's just throw some pitches out that anyone can run with. Single sentence pitches. Revise, reuse. Go.
I'll start:
A young man searches for his ancestors and past by creating it.
Serious, no jokes. I know we have some creatives out there who would want to/do write. Might be a good place to write some ideas that you don't feel like writing, but others might.
Note: I would bookmark these threads if you need to keep up to date. I don't know how many there will be.
I've been feeling particularly creative recently due to all the editing my friends are asking me to do. But a lot of that has to do with editing ideas.
So let's just throw some pitches out that anyone can run with. Single sentence pitches. Revise, reuse. Go.
I'll start:
A young man searches for his ancestors and past by creating it.
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Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:43 am to Freauxzen
The first person born on Mars goes psychotic after a life of distance and isolation on the red planet.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:45 am to Freauxzen
Walking Tall from the villains perspective
(inspired by the The Dirty South album by DBT)
(inspired by the The Dirty South album by DBT)
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:51 am to Freauxzen
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Freauxzen
I was going to try and start one of these today actually.
A request: don't come in saying you have an idea but you don't want to divulge it because you are scared someone will steal it. Intellectual property laws are your friend, and the idea isn't the most important thing. It's the execution.
One I've pitched already on here: An atheist investigator for the church discovers a demonic power.
Another I am re-writing-tv pilot: A down on his luck writer in New Orleans has to work for a loan-shark to pay off his deceased father's debt.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:54 am to Freauxzen
A recent college graduate from a small bucolic Louisiana town is disowned from his family when he becomes engaged to a black woman. (not a comedy)
This post was edited on 5/10/12 at 9:55 am
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:54 am to Freauxzen
quote:
A young man searches for his ancestors and past by creating it.
Can't help but think of this with that concept.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 9:56 am to fouldeliverer
quote:
A recent college graduate from a small bucolic Louisiana town is disowned from his family when he becomes engaged to a black woman.
Two questions: dark comedy or drama?
What's his goal? Does he want them to finally accept her?
I ask because it seems like it has promise in both genres.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:02 am to magildachunks
quote:
An atheist investigator for the church discovers a demonic power
Sounds like:
you could call it "lower case t files" or just "t-files"
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:03 am to fouldeliverer
quote:personal experience?
A recent college graduate from a small bucolic Louisiana town is disowned from his family when he becomes engaged to a black woman. (not a comedy)
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:04 am to magildachunks
quote:
I was going to try and start one of these today actually.
We've had a few before, it's time to make them a little more regular.
I'll be doing different topics as well - Genre Weeks, Long form pitches, characters, etc.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:04 am to Josh Fenderman
"It was a dark and stormy night"
<sorry, just couldn't resist>
<sorry, just couldn't resist>
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:05 am to Flair Chops
Young radically religious girl is mortally wounded by a group of cyborgs and uploaded to a virtual immortal environment against her will.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:09 am to magildachunks
It will be a drama but with some dark humor. The protagonist has a somewhat predatory, condescending wit and often responds with a rather dry sarcasm to his ignorant relatives. He knows his father will never accept the marriage but his mother is not as prejudiced. Though she wants to remain involved in her son's life, she's never been one to assert her independence from her controlling husband.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:09 am to OMLandshark
quote:
Young radically religious girl is mortally wounded by a group of cyborgs and uploaded to a virtual immortal environment against her will.
High-concept.
is the fact she's religious important? And i would cut out this part:
quote:
mortally wounded by a group of cyborgs and
for the logline.
Or just reword it to read something like: Mortally wounded girl is uploaded to virtual environment by cyborgs.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:10 am to OMLandshark
Recent divorcee moves to Savannah under his lawyer's suggestion and is haunted by guilt in the form of a psychopathic high school senior.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:11 am to fouldeliverer
quote:
It will be a drama but with some dark humor. The protagonist has a somewhat predatory, condescending wit and often responds with a rather dry sarcasm to his ignorant relatives. He knows his father will never accept the marriage but his mother is not as prejudiced. Though she wants to remain involved in her son's life, she's never been one to assert her independence from her controlling husband.
So what's the resolution? Do they accept her, or does he choose between the family and the girl? Or does his mother finally stand up to the father?
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:12 am to Flair Chops
quote:
personal experience?
Story about my cousin, though I did go on a few dates with a black girl early in college I knew my family would never accept her and I ended things before it ever really began. If the situation took place now that I'm out of college and older, I wouldn't handle it the same way.
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:13 am to fouldeliverer
Anyone ever written/considered writing a Katrina story, or a story set around the events of Katrina? Just curious
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:15 am to OMLandshark
quote:
Young radically religious girl is mortally wounded by a group of cyborgs and uploaded to a virtual immortal environment against her will.
All focused around the idea of the singularity?
Posted on 5/10/12 at 10:15 am to tylerdurden24
quote:
Anyone ever written/considered writing a Katrina story, or a story set around the events of Katrina? Just curious
I've considered it, but the event just seems so wrapped in cultural issues that you couldn't break free of that.
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