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How to Write Loglines for Novels – On the RMFW Blog

September 13, 2024 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

A logline is what you get when an author takes 90,000-words’ worth of character, conflict, and compelling story, and distills it down into a single sentence. Sure, that sounds easy, but most authors would rather have several fingernails ripped out to avoid writing a logline. I’ve got some tips that might make the process a little easier than fingernail torture this week over on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s blog: “Loglines—One-Sentence Torture Devices for Writers.“

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: Loglines, Pitch, Summary, Synopsis

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