Table of Contents
The Value of a Logline 11
In the Beginning… 13
Chapter 1 What Is a Logline? 21
Chapter 2 Who Is the Protagonist? 27
Chapter 3 What If There Are Two Protagonists? 33
Chapter 4 The Group Perspective 38
Chapter 5 What Does the Protagonist Want? 42
Chapter 6 What If They Don't Know What They Want? 49
Chapter 7 Defining What's at Stake 54
Chapter 8 When What's at Stake Is Already Defined 61
Chapter 9 Only a Sentence 65
Chapter 10 What's in a Name? 71
Chapter 10 Sample Loglines 78
Answers to Chapter 10 Samples 80
Chapter 11 Ageism 84
Chapter 11 Sample Loglines 90
Answers to Chapter 11 Samples 92
Chapter 12 The Adjective Objective 96
Chapter 12 Sample Loglines 102
Answers to Chapter 12 Samples 104
Chapter 13 Be Specific 109
Chapter 14 The Voice 116
Chapter 15 Finessing 124
Chapter 16 Usage 130
Chapter 17 Fiction vs. Nonfiction/Memoir 138
Chapter 18 It's All About the Drama 145
Chapter 19 The Logline Process 150
Chapter 20 Expanding the Logline 166
Chapter 21 Everything Works 172
Chapter 22 Conclusion 178
Loglines Cheat Sheet 182
Logline Samples & Explanations 184
Workbook-Simple Loglines 192
Workbook-Simple Logline Answers 195
Workbook-Complex Loglines 203
Workbook-Complex Logline Answers 209
Acknowledgments 225
About the Author 227
