If you haven’t been on the site lately, we’ve spent the last two weekends pitching horror loglines. It’s a cool experiment and, even better, it’s an experiment that’s working. Regardless of whether people enter or get into the Showdown, what I wanted to convey with this challenge is the risk of going with the first […]

Pitching closed for the weekend! Last weekend, we had over 1000 logline pitches for the Blood and Ink Showdown. A lucky dozen writers got a golden ticket into the official competition. How do you get a golden ticket? Let me tell you a little about the contest first. I have a direct line to, arguably, […]

Here are some tips on how to perform better I’ll remind everybody of the details of the Blood and Ink Showdown pitch rules tomorrow but, essentially, you are pitching horror loglines to try and get into an official screenplay competition. The winner of that competition will have a chance to get their script read by […]

Genre: War-Action Premise: Shot down by the Red Baron, a Nurse with a photographic memory must navigate the perils of no-man’s land to transport critical intelligence to the Allies that will save countless lives and shorten the Great War. About: This is one of the four Mega-Showdown finalists. It finished with 16 votes, tying it for […]

Genre: Thriller Logline: At the height of World War 2, a young Japanese-American investigator must race to prevent a terrifying Japanese plot to unleash a devastating plague on the United States. Inspired by true events. About: This is one of the four Mega-Showdown finalists. It finished with 16 votes, tying it for second place. You can read […]