Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

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What's your PREMISE? (Part 1)

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Alexandra Sokoloff
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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.

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