By:
Laura Drake, @PBRWriter
I
love loglines. There’s
no better feeling than pulling together words that capture the spirit of your
book in a perfect, compelling way. I teach a submissions class for the LawsonWriter’s Academy and find that loglines are a major source of stress
for my students.
Have
you ever noticed that loglines are only fun to come up with when they’re NOT
yours?
There’s
a reason for that.
But
first, there’s some confusion about taglinesvs loglines, so let’s start there.
- A tagline is a catchy ‘movie poster’ phrase.
- A logline is a 25 word synopsis of your book.
Examples
illustrate the difference clearly:
Jaws –
Tagline
– Don’t go in the water.
Logline
– After a series of grisly shark attacks, a sheriff struggles
to protect his small beach community against the bloodthirsty monster, in spite
of the greedy chamber of commerce. (from J.Gideon Sarentinos)
So
WHY is it so hard to write loglines for your own books? You’re too close
to it. A logline is a concise, yet sweeping portrayal of your novel’s genre,
conflict, characters and emotion. Did I mention in 25 words? Yeah, no problem.
There
are formulas to come up with loglines:
.
. .
Read the full article HERE!
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