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Crafting the perfect logline

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A logline is an essential part of the pitching process, but it’s also a


helpful tool for thinking about your story. A logline is a one
sentence description of your story designed to quickly grab a
reader’s attention. Thinking about a logline can help you clarify
your story’s hook and determine if your opening chapter is
Immediate enough.

What to include in a logline


A logline will generally contain the following elements:

Protagonist + Inciting Incident + Protagonist’s Goal +


Central Conflict

The Protagonist is the main character of the story


The Inciting Incident is the moment that kicks off the plot
The Protagonist’s Goal is the thing the protagonist is trying to
achieve
The Central Conflict is the main problem or question the
protagonist is trying to solve.

Your first chapter should include at least 2/4 of these elements.

An Inciting Incident hook should introduce us to all of these


elements. A Flash Forward hook should make us aware of the
Protagonist, the Goal, and the Central Conflict. A Threat Teaser
hook should strongly emphasize the Central Conflict and implies
the Goal.

Go through your opening chapter and identify where you


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introduce each of these elements. If something is missing, that
might be an indicator you need to revise your opening chapter to
make it more dynamic, and is usually an indicator you’ve focused
too much on exposition or backstory, rather than the front story.

Writing your Logline


The great news is now that you’ve gone through this exercise and
identified your Protagonist and their Goal, the Inciting Incident,
Goal, and Central Conflict, you have the basic structure of your
logline ready to go.

Try this formula as a way to get a feel for writing your logline:

When [Inciting Incident] happens, [Protagonist] must [action] in


order to [Goal]
:

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