Why you Should Learn to Love the Logline
Why you Should Learn to Love the Logline
When I was a frustrated, struggling writer, I used to believe there was something wrong with the system. How was anyone with talent supposed to break in, if the people within the system made it virtually impossible to get noticed?
Take this ridiculous idea of LOGLINES.
Am I really supposed to be able to encapsulate my entire kick-ass, finely-detailed, one-hundred-page screenplay in TWO SENTENCES?! That’s got to be the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard. Impossible. Stupid. Narrow-minded. No matter WHAT I came up with, it could never truly reflect the richness of my words. Those producers are closing their minds to the more complex and valuable material, I assumed.
And then I started looking for screenplays to produce.
Being the enlightened one, I accepted any and all unsolicited
