Month: October 2019

Story Premise Examples: 500 Sample Story Premise/Loglines to Work From

If you cannot get your story premise pounded into solid shape, you don’t have a story. So why should you proceed? When constructing your own story premise, it helps to use other premises as models. Here are almost 500 story premises arranged by genre. Story Premise / Logline Genre 1 Terrorists kidnap the Vice President… Continue reading Story Premise Examples: 500 Sample Story Premise/Loglines to Work From

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How to Build a Solid Story Premise

Get your story premise right, and the rest of the story-writing experience will go much smoother. Crafting a solid story premise is your come-to-Jesus moment. It’s the moment of reckoning. It’s your story skeleton’s skeleton. Do this first. Do not write the story, the novel, the screenplay, and then reverse-engineer the premise to fit the… Continue reading How to Build a Solid Story Premise

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Crime Up and Down at the Same Time: Meet Your New Local News – Hoodline

Local news is in shambles, no doubt about that. Hyper-local newspapers are either struggling or no longer exist. In my community, the hyper-local newspaper survives only by running what feels like 90-percent ads and 10-percent news. Since robots build our cars and electronics, can they build our local news? That’s what Hoodline, a news aggregator,… Continue reading Crime Up and Down at the Same Time: Meet Your New Local News – Hoodline

Hi, 1587 35th Avenue, San Francisco, Meet the JFK Assassination

The Belasco Theater in New York at 111 West 44th Street was built over a century ago for Broadway theater impresario David Belasco. The Belasco is still there and thriving. Anyone who loves Broadway theater has undoubtedly been to the Belasco Theater at one point or another. The Belasco name would, strangely enough, surface during the… Continue reading Hi, 1587 35th Avenue, San Francisco, Meet the JFK Assassination