Joelle Circé

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The Logline broke my brain.

After completing my first novel, having gone through hoops and loops and cleaning up my fair share of bloops, the next steps were about writing a query letter and synopsis. The query letter and synopsis proved difficult, but I got it done. Not without help from different sources. Then there was the logline. A logline is a one-sentence summary of your plot, a short blurb describing the inciting incident, and the main character’s struggle against the antagonist to attain their goal before all is lost.
To break it down in another way. A logline has four elements: the protagonist, their goal, the antagonist and the stakes.

Here’s mine: Can a former profiler find out who’s stalking her before it’s too late?