I get it. I post the 10 winning loglines. And every single writer not responsible for those 10 loglines is upset with the picks. How could you pick *that* logline when *my* logline is so much better!?! Well, I’m going to tell you. I’m going to take you behind the scenes and go into my […]

Genre: Horror Premise: Investigating the crime scene of a potential homicide in the Appalachian mountainside, a deputy encounters a strange mountain community that claims to be haunted by an evil witch that lives in the woods. About: This script landed pretty high on last year’s Black List. Screenwriter Jonathan Easley has one credit, last year’s […]

A first ever! Scriptshadow reviews… a logline??? Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! Here was the entry: Title: PARASAIL Genre: Thriller Writer: Arthur Logline: After the speedboat operator pulling their parasail apparently collapses and dies beneath them, a honeymooning couple find themselves speeding hundreds of miles out to sea, suspended 400 feet in the air, in a passage […]

Because my new e-mailer continues to suck, I’m putting my latest newsletter here on the site.  If you want to receive future newsletters, e-mail “newsletter” to carsonreeves1@gmail.com SUPER NOTES DEAL (HURRY UP AND CLAIM!) I’m only going to give THREE of these away. Half-off priced notes. You get 4 pages of notes on your feature […]

Let me start by saying that the average logline submission this time around was better than ever before. Usually, every other e-mail I get, I’m rolling my eyes at how poor the logline is. But here, that didn’t happen. So all of you should be patting yourselves on the back for a job well done. […]