AGENT CHECK (1916 practice and a proposal): what checklist can an agent run on a story title using only Sargent's Chapter XXVII, and which parts are his rules versus my mapping to present-day working titles and loglines?
Eight checks drawn from Sargent's chapter: brevity, genre honesty, no give-away, not trite, read aloud, name last, a dozen candidates, and a released-title record held by the company. Each is labelled 1916 practice with its source; the mapping to modern working-title and logline practice is a proposal that no source tests.
Eight checks drawn from Sargent's chapter: brevity, genre honesty, no give-away, not trite, read aloud, name last, a dozen candidates, and a released-title record held by the company. Each is labelled 1916 practice with its source; the mapping to modern working-title and logline practice is a proposal that no source tests.
Curator qualifications: Eight checks trace to verified statements; modern working-title mapping is a proposal.
Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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- [proposal] Eight checks drawn from Sargent's chapter: brevity, genre honesty, no give-away, not trite, read aloud, name last, a dozen candidates, and a released-title record held by the company. Each is labelled 1916 practice with its source; the mapping to modern working-title and logline practice is a proposal that no source tests. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate; sar.flat spot checks source
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