When people ask you what your book or script is about, what they are really asking is – “What’s the Premise?” In other words: What’s the story line in one immediately understandable sentence? That one sentence is also referred to as a “logline” (in Hollywood) or “the elevator pitch” (in publishing) or “the TV Guide pitch”—it all means the same thing.
"A drug-dealing ladies man with psychic skills meets the woman he'll mend most of his ways for. A new age con artist herself, she's got her own brand of psychic ability and a troubling history of being on hand for untimely deaths, but they learn to work together to thwart her husband's plans to sell her and her secrets to settle a deadly debt."
Good piece - loglines really are not just hugely important to pitch and get people interested/excited, they are, as you say, also fantastic north stars for the writer. Once you have your logline, you'll likely always find your way back onto the right story track.
"A drug-dealing ladies man with psychic skills meets the woman he'll mend most of his ways for. A new age con artist herself, she's got her own brand of psychic ability and a troubling history of being on hand for untimely deaths, but they learn to work together to thwart her husband's plans to sell her and her secrets to settle a deadly debt."
Good piece - loglines really are not just hugely important to pitch and get people interested/excited, they are, as you say, also fantastic north stars for the writer. Once you have your logline, you'll likely always find your way back onto the right story track.
BTW - I've also shared some thoughts about this - and added a bunch of actual loglines to peruse. Some of them are actually quite boring - but they paint a clear picture, and that's what counts. > https://danielmartineckhart.substack.com/p/loglines-25-words-that-can-change