Alexander Naumenko: Screenwriter in Kiev, Ukraine.

Greetings, Phil! Thank you for reaching out. Recently I have finished the second draft of my first screenplay. If you like sci-fi you are more than welcome to take a look. I will so much appreciate your feedback.

Updated "Proving human" - finished the next draft recently.

Uploaded my first screenplay. Comments are most welcome!

It all starts with a logline

Unfortunately, it often ends with it. If your logline is not compelling then everything you carefully prepared for submission (synopsis, script, etc.) will go to a trash bin.

If you want to avoid it, use the approach many advise for writing the first page. Leave a hook at the end to make a reader want to turn the page and read more.

A logline is only one sentence, so it all should be a hook.

Your logline should allow a reader to figure out genre, protagonist (and antagonist), protagonist’s goal and what is at stake. Make all of those compelling and you win. But you can do even better.

Make it ironic and you will nail it. For example, in Die Hard the protagonist comes to a Christmas party and goes through hell.

And last but not the least. Your logline makes a promise to a reader that he will soon read a good story. Trust your competitors – their loglines also make that promise. To stand out, your story should include more than what was promised. So, leave some cool stuff for your synopsis, and some for the script.

For instance, don’t include your ending in the logline. Let your story resolution be an icing on your cake. Besides, a logline is only up to 27 words – you cannot include everything.

May all readers want to read your scripts upon reading your awesome loglines!

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