How To Create A Logline That Sells

Sell Your Story In 40 Words

Todd Foley
The Writer’s Life
2 min readNov 19, 2019

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Beyond the cast and director, the biggest selling point to an audience for a movie is the logline. A logline is a short summary of a television program, film, or book that shows the story’s central conflict, event and character — ideally with an emotional hook for the audience.

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Todd Foley
The Writer’s Life

If a Lifetime thriller got the A24 remix. 3x optioned screenwriter. Author of 4 novellas. Agent: Doreen Holmes @ Integral Artists