Ryan Nielsen: Crew, director and production assistant in Los Angeles, California.

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Hey guys! I hope you all are having a decent day thus far. I on the other hand am having a bit of a dilemma. You see, I have this romance story idea that I want to start out in book form first, but for some reason it seems easier to start out writing the story in the screenplay format first. What would you do??

Tiffany Hilliard

@Kristin Holloway, thank you.

Steven Hopstaken

Screenplays make great book outlines. I'm turning one of my scripts into a novel right now and have already sold it to a publisher. Michael Crichton started all his novels out as screenplay's first.

Tiffany Hilliard

@Steven Hopstaken Cool, definitely considering this for future references.

GENRE: Sci-fi, Horror
LOGLINE:

Set in New Mexico in the 1950s, Moira Ranch is a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol addiction. When Maria, a young woman from Baltimore, is mysteriously sentenced to the ranch, she hopes to put her dark past of drug abuse and the death of her young daughter behind her. Instead, Maria is slowly confronted with the realization that she may be under the care and influence of a religious order that will not allow her to leave. And that's not all, there's a beam of light protruding from the barn out back, and it doesn't appear to be of this earth. 

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GENRE: Independent, Crime
LOGLINE:

Over the course of a summer, an aimless and lonely twenty-two-year-old finds companionship in a group of thieves, while the boy's estranged father - an aging police detective - unknowingly pursues his own son.     

Tasha Lewis

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