Make that 130 members by day's end, Scott.

WOW!

This is an amazing thing you're doing with "I.O.Lou."

I mentioned this in a post a few moments ago on the board but I'll mention it here too...

An interesting and wonderful byproduct of The GITS Club is that it fuels a desire to raise up my game as a writer. There are some supremely talented writers all over that board. I really had no concept of what my "competition" was but I sure do now. These aren't just people slapping together whatever nonsense comes into their heads and putting it out there, these are well thought out and meticulously crafted projects.

To paraphrase and alter a Nicholson line from "As Good As It Gets"...

"You all make me want to be a better writer."

By the way, your 3 tiered process to logline evaluation is tops.

* target audience
* size of audience
* buyer interest

Gives me an all new way of thinking about them.

Agree about The Hangover. In fact, the version I read had some pretty major differences in terms of plot, but the overall story premise was exactly the same.

The biggest difference was that Bradley Cooper's character had ruffied everyone on purpose because he owed a debt he couldn't possibly payback. He was also a thief and generally not nice guy.

There was also more "I love you man" moments that were simply in the script to try and gloss over the fact that Vic had screwed them all over, but they remained friends anyway.

The change to Vic making him nice. Making Alan be the one who ruffied them had a huge effect on the plot. But barely even altered the premise (in fact, made it better).

The only people I try to please are the target. The only people I want to please are the director and the actors.

I agree with Scott that you just want a few words that say who it's about and who it's for.

I guess I'll post some at GITS Club. I've got around 80 now.