SeanPaulMurphyVille: RUNAWAY HEART: AI Generated Loglines

Sunday, March 19, 2023

RUNAWAY HEART: AI Generated Loglines

I recently used ChatGPT to create loglines for my script Final Table. I felt the program generated some excellent examples. However, the thrust of that story was easy to relay. My script, Runaway Heart, co-written by Jenna Healy Gloeb, was more complicated. Let's see how it does.

Yours truly with Jenna Healy Gloeb

Here's what I fed into the program:

Create a logline for the following story. Thirty-year-old Romy works as a waitress and is married to good man named Tom. She is unable to fully commit to him because of emotional scars she carries from her troubled childhood; her father's untimely death and subsequent abuse by a stepfather. Her only true comfort comes from memories of kindly, loving great-grandmother Elsa Provanti, an Italian immigrant. Sadly, Romy lost track of the Italian branch of her family over the years, and with it, her sense of safety and innocence.

Romy is forced to confront her inner demons when a newspaper obituary reveals that her mother Stella had a half-brother they had never met. Now, more than ever, Romy feels driven to uncover the mysteries that divided and separated her family. She gets an opportunity when her best friend Barb takes her to a genealogy class at the local library. The instructor, Vince, a relentless if inept womanizer, helps her start her family tree, but Romy wants more. Vince is hosting a tour of Italy. Romy longs to go, but it seems out of reach until she has an argument with Tom about her unwillingness to have a child with him. She walks out on him and spends her savings on the trip to Italy.

When she arrives in Rome, Romy falls in love with Italy while fending off Vince's persistent advances and dealing with the jealousy of Barb, who has a crush on Vince herself. For Romy, however, the moment of truth comes she leaves the tour and heads to the small village of Arnara. An old letter to Elsa gave Romy the address of the family home. She knocks on the door and presents the inhabitants a photo of Elsa and her twin sister Assunta. She immediately finds herself welcomed warmly by Assunta's daughter Pina.

Before long, Romy is overwhelmed by a flood of happy cousins and well-wishers who fete and toast her. She has never experienced such unconditional love. More importantly, Pina shows Romy a box of letters between Assunta and Elsa, which reveal the reasons for the break-up of her family. Romy resolves open herself up to love and never repeat those mistakes. When her husband Tom arrives to retrieve Romy, he finds a happier and more self-confident woman.

Here are the loglines the program generated:

1). After losing touch with her Italian family and struggling to commit to her husband, a waitress embarks on a journey to Italy to uncover the mysteries of her past, where she discovers unconditional love and the key to healing her emotional scars.

2). When a newspaper obituary reveals a long-lost family member, emotionally scarred Romy is driven to confront her past and find her Italian family, but her journey to uncover the mysteries that divided her family takes her on an unexpected adventure to Italy, where she discovers the unconditional love and acceptance she's been searching for her whole life.

3). After losing track of her Italian family and struggling to fully commit to her husband due to emotional scars from her past, Romy embarks on a journey of self-discovery to Italy, where she uncovers family secrets, finds unconditional love, and learns to confront her inner demons.

4). After losing touch with her only source of comfort, a waitress haunted by emotional scars from a traumatic childhood embarks on a journey to Italy to reconnect with her roots and uncover family secrets, discovering the healing power of love and forgiveness along the way.

5). After losing touch with her Italian heritage and her sense of safety, a troubled waitress confronts her emotional scars when a genealogy class leads her to Rome, where she discovers her family's hidden past and learns to open herself up to love.

6). After losing touch with her family and unable to fully commit to her husband due to emotional scars from her troubled childhood, a waitress named Romy embarks on a journey to Italy to uncover the mysteries of her family's past, leading to unexpected love, unconditional acceptance, and a newfound sense of self-worth.

7). Romy, a troubled waitress with a painful past, embarks on a journey to Italy to uncover the secrets that tore her family apart, finding love and healing along the way.

8). After losing track of her family's Italian branch, emotionally scarred Romy is forced to confront her past when she discovers a half-brother she never knew existed. With the help of an inept genealogy instructor, she travels to Italy where she rediscovers her family, learns the truth about the past, and finds the courage to open herself up to love.

9). After losing touch with her family and struggling to fully commit to her good-hearted husband, a waitress named Romy embarks on a journey to Italy to uncover the mysteries that divided her family, leading her to confront her inner demons and ultimately discover the unconditional love she's been longing for.

10). After losing touch with her family and struggling to fully commit to her good-hearted husband, a waitress named Romy embarks on a journey to Italy to uncover the mysteries that divided her family, leading her to confront her inner demons and ultimately discover the unconditional love she's been longing for.

11). After discovering a long-lost family secret, a troubled waitress risks everything to find her roots in Italy and confront the emotional scars of her past, ultimately discovering a newfound sense of belonging and love.

12). When a newspaper obituary reveals a family secret, emotionally scarred Romy is driven to uncover the mysteries of her past and find the safety and innocence she lost as a child, leading her on a journey of self-discovery to Italy where she finally confronts her inner demons and learns the truth about her family's past, finding unconditional love and a newfound sense of self.

13). After a lifetime of emotional scars, Romy must confront her past and journey to Italy to uncover family secrets and find the love and belonging she craves.

I found these loglines a little more hit and miss than the ones for Final Table, but I think some of them are stronger than the one my partner and I came up with. Another win for artificial intelligence.

You can read Runaway Heart here:

My novel Chapel Street is now available! You can buy the Kindle and paperback at Amazon and the Nook, paperback and hardcover at Barnes & Noble. Chapel Street is the tale of a young man battling a demonic entity that has driven members of his family to suicide for generations. It was inspired by an actual haunting.

Learn more about the book, click Here.

Listen to me read some chapters here:

Chapel Street - Prologue - My Mother

Chapel Street - Chapter 1 - RestingPlace.com

Chapel Street - Chapter 2 - Elisabetta

Chapel Street - Chapter 3 - The Upload

Chapel Street - Chapter 4 - The Kobayashi Maru

Read about the true haunting that inspired the novel here: