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Okay, the world is once more a rational place. I, who've written several hundred thousand words about superheroes fucking (not to mention, yeah, original prose), have managed to complete a query letter.
The trick is to summarize your story like every word is being read by Don LaFontaine. Although, quick tip: Not every sentence can begin "In a world where justice is outlawed and freedom is a memory". Only some of them.
ETA: Roger Ebert, after losing his voice to cancer, can now speak again with a computer program that's recreated his old voice from episodes of At The Movies. Can we do that with Don LaFontaine? I know we can't get much from movie trailers, but honestly, how many "In a worlds" are there at the cineplexes? Aside from Avatar. "In a world where really tall blue cat things have sex by sticking their hair into each other, then use that same hair to mind-control beasts, and are cruelly exploited so that humanity can mine Unobtainium... c'mon, seriously?"
The trick is to summarize your story like every word is being read by Don LaFontaine. Although, quick tip: Not every sentence can begin "In a world where justice is outlawed and freedom is a memory". Only some of them.
ETA: Roger Ebert, after losing his voice to cancer, can now speak again with a computer program that's recreated his old voice from episodes of At The Movies. Can we do that with Don LaFontaine? I know we can't get much from movie trailers, but honestly, how many "In a worlds" are there at the cineplexes? Aside from Avatar. "In a world where really tall blue cat things have sex by sticking their hair into each other, then use that same hair to mind-control beasts, and are cruelly exploited so that humanity can mine Unobtainium... c'mon, seriously?"