i’ve been watching old episodes of How I Met Your Mother for research, and decided on the logline for the spec i want to write. my A story, the main story, concerns Robin and Lily, so i need to come up with a good B story that involves the other characters, Ted, Marshall, and Barney. i had several ideas but one of them fits thematically with the A story, so that’s the one i’m going to go with.
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