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Guides for how to write summaries, loglines, and more.

There is an art in Hollywood of writing a slightly teasing, but not too teasing, 1-2 sentence summary of a movie known as a “logline” (around 30-60 words). We are stealing that art for short storie...

This is an additional reference to help guide you when creating genre tags for stories. We want our genre to help a user learn about the story "type" in one glance. This could be anything from ...

Write a short summary of the story. Length doesn’t matter as much as speed. So if you write faster by writing longer, go for it. But 1-5 paragraphs is fine. So far the summaries have been around 250-...

We are working on developing a system of tags that allow people to browse for the types of topics/structures/etc they like, as tags are the main discovery surfaces for Writing Atlas. Here is our “f...

We are trying to create a large catalogue of short stories for movie producers, screenwriters, academics, readers and ourselves. We think this can be a great resource, and a great way to highlight wr...