Loglines for books are tricky to find because they’re re-written countless ways by people writing about your book.
I break it down further below, and won’t presume to say if or how it works, but will reserve the right to change it. But happiness eludes her until finally, she realizes she’s been asking the wrong question. Īfter getting dumped over the telephone by her husband, the devastated author becomes determined to find her bliss, only to spend a decade bouncing between gurus in India, healers in NYC, and ultimately anyone with a pulse willing to say what’s wrong with her. Here’s the logline I wrote for my forthcoming memoir, Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Surviving the Wellness Revolution. We get a sense of the scope that leaves us hungry for more. Sticky Fingers provided a service to a community in need. In these few words, we learn the author grew up in this world, and that there’s more to their story than just dealing pot.
The 1970s are as baked into this story as San Francisco, which the title reveals for you. This is the story of the illegal ‘bakery’ business that went on to distribute medical marijuana to those in need during the AIDS epidemic. In the ’70s, when the author was tucked into her stroller, her mother ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that delivered more than 10,000 marijuana edibles to customers each month. The following examples show how the final logline won’t precisely fit the formula mold, starting with the logline for Alia Volz’s book, Home Baked: My Mother, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco: The good news is, whereas stories can go wrong in many ways, loglines mostly go wrong by not following the formula. If your audiences don’t seem as interested as you’d like, and your know your story is solid, then your logline is off. Using the formula will help you craft a few sentences that will excite others about your book quickly. And that’s exactly why you want to optimize the chance to entice potential readers. I can’t do justice to it in a couple of sentences.” “My book breaks boundaries, pushes envelopes, and otherwise expands the field of literature. But perhaps most importantly, you must convey what your protagonist wants and what will happen if they don’t reach their goal. The end result will be one or two sentences describing the protagonist, their goal, and the major source of conflict. The exact order is less important than the ingredients. In a (SETTING) a (PROTAGONIST) a (PROBLEM/INCITING INCIDENT) (caused by ANTAGONIST) and (faces CONFLICT/OBSTACLE) as try to (achieve a GOAL). Why not give yourself the best possible shot? After all, it’s just a formula. Having a tight description can make or break their excitement. When you have a book to share with the world, you don’t want to just tell people about it. It’s how most people will decide, “Is this something I want to spend time with?”
The term comes from old Hollywood, where studios kept hundreds of scripts, each logged in a book by a single descriptive sentence, the logline.īefore you object to writing one for your book, know that this information is just as important for readers as moviegoers. Loglines are short descriptions that state the central plot conflict as well as a story’s emotional hook.
Even if you’ve never heard the word logline, you’ve read and used them a bazillion times.
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