{"id":242,"date":"2026-01-16T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:40:05","slug":"a-logline-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"A Logline a Week…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I’ve been trying to post a quote a week on my Instagram<\/a> channel. The one for this week was from Ray Bradbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Write a short story every week. It\u2019s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not trying to be a novelist or short story author, so I’d replace short story with short screenplay or logline or something else, but it’s a good reminder near the beginning of the year to set aside time to write, write, write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing a feature or a short script a week isn’t practical to fit around a fulltime job, but going forward, I’ll be posting a logline a week on my IG channel (and here). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure some of them will be bad but, as Bradbury says, it’s impossible they’ll all be bad. And it’s a good chance to practice idea generation — and doing this can’t help but improve my logline writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a good discipline — and hopefully leads to refining and improving my writing craft. A good idea is the foundation of a script. If the foundation is lean and strong, the script should be better for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ll mostly be projects I haven’t written yet. For some posts, I may break down my decisions in the wording of the logline, or post different versions of the same idea to see how different word choices or phrasings impact the tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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