Wicked! She shivered again, this time because she lay naked and sweaty on the sofa in her boss' office late on a Saturday night.
For shame! A wife for 28 years, a mother for 25 years, and her young lover Hamal had just padded off to the restroom.
Her cell-phone rang in her purse. Still shivering, still enjoying it, she crept over to answer it.
"Sally —" said a voice she knew so well "— are you cheating on Frank?"
"What other films could you equate your project to? This industry is big on _high concept_ comparative descriptions, especially when you're comparing your project to others that have done big box office numbers. Examples would be _Agent Cody Banks_, which sold as a teenage James Bond, or _Alien_, which sold as _Jaws_ on a spaceship.
"A pitch should start with a succinct, compelling logline (the essence of your story in one sentence) that will grab someone's attention. You can't underestimate the significance of a catchy logline, because it's the first thing a buyer will hear (or read if you're writing a query letter) and could mean the difference between immediately grabbing someone's attention or losing that person's interest on the spot. My producer-writer-friend Graham Ludlow likes to give the example of what he thinks the perfect logline for _Liar, Liar_ might be, which is: A lawyer suddenly discovers that he can no longer lie.
"Your pitch should have a beginning, a middle and an end, although you don't havo to compress the entire story into the pitch. The goal is to be able to convey the essence and heart of the project, just enough to entice the buyer to want to know more, to ask questions and to want to read the script.
"... you should have a 30-second pitch, a one-minute, five-minute and 15-minute version."
"Perilous times!" How often have we heard such words? Surely, they pre-date writing for they're too human to have waited for history to begin. In the same way that nature preceded artifact, cause precedes the scripture that justifies it. These people want to lord it over those people, so they slap the labels "divine" and "inerrant" on their religious writings to give them an excuse to act the way they wanted to in the first place.
What other purpose does the claim of infallibility serve? Why else would you say that God has spoken directly to your people and that His Word has survived all the human clap-trap that has come between the original Dictation and that 21st-century piece of paper you're reading from?
I grew up going to Protestant churches (usually Disciples of Christ) and still believe that Yeshua ...
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