Tell us your Plot in One sentence (merged with writing exercise)

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If you can't summarize your story in one sentence, or if the summary is something like "three women live through their lives, contemplating their future" then there's a problem, because there may be no direction, no overall structure or themes or arc.
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in another thread, so I thought it might be interesting to see if we can tell our plots in one sentence.

I don't wanna go first.


Go for it: One sentence, tell us what happens.
 
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I'll try:

A mute young foster girl falls for a dangerous boy, runs away with him, and must survive on the mean city streets, voiceless and, ultimately, alone.
 
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Someone is using information from the state's Sex Offenders website to kill sex offenders in a mid-sized town and the investigator assigned to the crime has to deal with the sexual abuse in his past while working on solving the murders.
 
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Yep, scaredy dog here.

But what the heck:

Legacy: A police detective on the trail of a serial killer employs the help of his father, a retired detective and now famous true-crime author, only to discover the killer is his father.
 

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There's this person, and another person. Someone does stuff and it affects the other person. Some more stuff happens. The end.
 

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There's this one person and another person and the first person does stuff that affects the other person then some more stuff happens and then the end.

Happy now?! :rant:
 
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Two crazy dudes meet on the top of the skeleton of a not yet finished skyscraper in Chicago to do mortal combat, but, it is their journey that makes the read really worthwhile.
 
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:sigh: shit. ok.

At his dead father's last request (and with the help of the ghost of Ernest Hemingway), Eric has to seek out one of his dad's old Army friends who is mentally instable and reluctant, in an attempt get both of their lives on track.

It's called Taking Lessons From Ernest.
 
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Stew21 said:
:sigh: shit. ok.

At his dead father's last request (and with the help of the ghost of Ernest Hemingway), Eric has to seek out one of his dad's old Army friends who is mentally instable and reluctant, in an attempt get both of their lives on track.

It's called Taking Lessons From Ernest.
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If that aint a freaking great title-I'd like to know what is!!!!
 
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WIP: A Malayan man and a British girl must endure the Pacific War, holding on to a shred of hope that each other is still alive.


Or something like that.
 
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Oh gosh, this is hard. Okay: A disabled computer science teacher pursues a relationship with the scary butch gym teacher, discovering in the process that he has to face himself before he can cope with anyone else.

Current WIP: A young surgeon is forced to confront the demons within his makeshift family-- unexpectedly assisted by a girl who may be able to thaw his foster-father's icy heart...
 
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