I read a synopsis on a forum. It went something like: Wife dies in accident, wife becomes vampire, wife bites husband in his sleep, husband needs to kill wife within a week or he will be come a vampire too, husband kills wife.
I blinked. I scrolled down, but there was no more to read. My face must have been one of astonishing amazement.
Where was the conflict?
Without conflict, there is no story.
Of course there is a potential conflict in “husband wants to kill his vampire wife”-thing, but it is not stated. The writer might just as well think it is the most natural thing there is and doesn’t see any conflict in this.
What ever you do when you present an idea, make sure you have a conflict and see that it is properly presented.
A one sentence logline should include the conflict of the story, and so should a synopsis.
The conflict is the engine of the story. Without it the story is as interesting as if I had a cameraman following me on a happy day.
Make sure it is there.
A synopsis should sell your script. A synopsis without a conflict is as selling as an empty box of cereals.
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