Finding the Core of Your Story: How to Strengthen and Sell Your Story in One Essential Sentence (How to Write a Logline, Book 1)

dizzerina said Delighted with this book, and the power of loglines!. Pretty great stuff! This book was quick and easy to read, while also being powerful and to the point. I'd been sold on the power of loglines long before I discovered this book. There's something about being forced to tell my story in one exciting and unique sentence that helps me as an author dig through all the complex stuff I've generated to find the white hot core of what will h. "Five reasons you should read this book" according to Aubrey Hansen. (Besides the fact that I gave it five stars.)1--It explains what a logline is. Not knowing what a logline is makes it very hard to write a good one. But Jordan clears all that up quickly and coherently in the opening chapters.2--It addresses all the common logline problems. There are several pitfalls writers are prone to trip over when crafting loglines. Jordan addresses all of the. Changed the way I write Jonathan Lovelace It's a rare book that makes me completely change my mind. But this one did.I'm an aspiring author, and on a forum for like-minded fellow authors, a few years back I noticed a lot of members spending a lot of effort to write and refine loglines for their stories. I'd run across the concept, in its original context, a few times, and this seemed like nothing more than yet another gimm

What's your story about? Do you answer with a blank stare when someone asks you that question? Do you have trouble writing your description? What if you had an attention-grabbing way to leave your audience begging for more? Story consultant and author Jordan Smith has taken a powerful technique used by professional Hollywood screenwriters to sell their scripts and made it accessible to everyone with Finding the Core of Your Story. Whether you write novels, movies, comic books, songs, or even operas, this book is for you.. It's called a logline--and once you know about it, you'll want to create one for every story you write