Birthday Fun #2 -- THE FAKE LOGLINE CONTEST

I know how much you all LOVE TO WRITE LOGLINES!

Now's your chance to compete for some critterly prizes.  (I've got a bunch of query and first chapter critiques to give away, courtesy of my beloved MSFV Success Stories Top Secret Society.)

Here's the deal:

• Write a FAKE LOGLINE!  Your fake story HAS TO BE about AUTHORESS or THE BLOG or SOMETHING RELATING TO AUTHORESS OR THE BLOG.
• Just because it's fake doesn't mean it doesn't follow logline rules. WRITE YOUR LOGLINE THE CORRECT WAY.
• Your logline can be funny or intriguing or incredibly clever.  But it has to BE A LOGLINE.
• Use THE WEB FORM to submit your logline.
• Maximum word count: 60 (shorter is better)
• Submissions will open at 8:00 EDT on Thursday, March 28 and will close at 8:00 EDT on Friday, March 29
• A maximum of 75 entries will be allowed.  If that maximum is reached before the end of the submission window, the window will close.
• 2 alternates will be chosen, in the event that there are entries that do not meet the requirements (in which case, an alternate will take the place of the disqualified entry).
• All 75 entries will post on the blog on Tuesday, April 2.
• Round One:  Blog readers may vote YES or NO on each entry, to determine whether the entry is good enough to go on to Round Two.
• Round Two: The top 30 loglines will be judged by Holly Bodger, our Logline Queen!
• A plethora of prizes will be disbursed.
• One Very Unique Prize will be awarded to a deserving Browncoat among the contestants. That's all I'm saying right now.

Roll up your sleeves and churn out your fake logline!  Questions below.

Time To Nail Your Log Line!

You may call it a tagline, a hook, or a log line, but they're all different terms for the same thing:

ONE OR TWO AWESOME SENTENCES THAT TELL US WHAT YOUR STORY IS ABOUT.

The week after next, we're going to spend some time critiquing log lines. If you're interested in participating, use the next two weeks to work on your log line. Because critique for this sort of thing could be brutal.

Good log lines are hard! But we're all capable of learning to write killer ones.

There's a reason I'm doing this, of course. It has to do with the VERY SPECIAL SOMETHING I have planned for December.

(Pausing while dramatic music swells.)

The VERY SPECIAL SOMETHING is for:

• Manuscripts that are FINISHED, POLISHED, and READY TO QUERY
• Manuscripts for which the author has written a LOG LINE (HOOK, TAGLINE)
• Manuscripts that are NOT currently represented by an agent or under consideration by a publisher

Interested? Work on the log line for your completed novel and then enter our log line critique sessions the week of the 18th! (One on Tuesday and one on Thursday--stay tuned!)

"But but but...how do I write a log line?"

More about that tomorrow! Consider this an early heads-up.

Questions below! But no specific questions about the VERY SPECIAL SOMETHING. I'm not telling yet.