From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher
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The logline
From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher
The logline
- [Instructor] By definition a logline is a description of your story told in one sentence focusing on the main character, concept and primary conflict of the story. There are three key words in this definition, character, concept and conflict. Even though it's only one sentence, two at the very most, every logline should tell you who the story is about, why this story is special or unique, or in other words, why do we care enough about the character to want to read the story, and what is standing in the character's way? Character, concept, conflict. However I'm now going to replace two of those words. Instead of character I like to use the word hero. It makes the main character sound more important as they should. After all, they're the star of your book. And I'm going to replace concept with the word, hook. I also think this is a stronger word. It reminds us that the concept can't be dull or tedious. It has to hook the reader's attention. It has to grab us. What is special about…
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