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Finding the Core of Your Story

How to Strengthen and Sell Your Story in One Essential Sentence (How to Write a Logline, Book 1)
By: Jordan Smith
Narrated by: Adam Schulmerich
Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary

What's your story about?

Do you answer with a blank stare when someone asks you that question? Do you have trouble writing your Amazon description? What if you had an attention-grabbing way to leave your audience begging for more?

Story consultant and author Jordan Smith has taken a powerful technique used by professional Hollywood screenwriters to sell their scripts and made it accessible to everyone with Finding the Core of Your Story. It's called a logline--and once you know about it, you'll want to create one for every story you write. Whether you write novels, movies, comic books, songs, or even operas, this book is for you.

©2012 Jordan Smith (P)2017 Jordan Smith

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