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PERFECTING THE LOGLINE

A mini-course on how to write concise, compelling loglines that get people excited to read your screenplay.

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Ever wonder why no one wants to read your screenplay?

It's almost certainly your logline. Hey, I get it. Loglines can feel like a drag on your creative soul. I felt that way about them through the first half of my career. I treated them as homework. Something I had to do. Something I would whip up just before I sent the script to my agent.

It was a huge mistake. So many opportunities were lost. So much energy wasted. I want you to avoid that. I want you to love loglines the way I love them now. After this mini-course, you will.

You will understand why they're so important and how to use that to your advantage. You will learn how to structure out a logline and know how to validate your whole project with them before you even start outlining.

This isn't about the format or summarizing your screenplay. Anyone can teach you that. This is about making your logline one of the most important tools in your screenwriter toolbox.

My career shifted dramatically when I embraced the effectiveness of the logline, and I believe yours can too.

PERFECTING THE LOGLINE will teach you to:

  • Write a logline that actually makes someone want to read your screenplay.
  • Identify just how marketable your screenplay idea actually is. 
  • Identify whether your idea is worth investing the time and energy that could be better spent on other, more profitable projects.
  • Form a strategy as an original creator in a world dominated by pre-existing intellectual property.
  • And if you want, I can even coach you personally on your logline.

Are you ready? Let's do this.

Get to "Yes" faster for $99

Your Instructor: Tom Vaughan

I started writing professionally twenty-five years ago. I've had eight movies made and two more in production this year. I am proud of all the ups and downs of my career, but if you really want to understand a subject, I recommend teaching it.

I have been teaching for 20 years now. It forced me to communicate the why behind so many of the decisions I made as a screenwriter. In doing so, these decisions became tools, accessible whenever I needed them.

As I became a better teacher, I became a better writer. As I became a better writer, I became a better teacher.
When I struggle with any of my own projects, these are the principles I fall back on.

Because of my teaching, I finally have what I lacked early in my career: a tangible and repeatable process to maximize the full potential of a story idea and tell the story I am trying to tell to the best of my abilities.

That's what these classes are about. And Go Coogs!

Yours To Keep

This may be just a mini-course, but it can change the direction of your writing career forever. Like all the Story and Plot courses, it's yours to keep. Broken up into short videos, you'll be able to watch and absorb them at your own pace. Plus, you'll be able to go back and reference them whenever you need.



Worksheets

What is an online course without worksheets! It would feel like a ripoff if we didn't hand these out! Take your story idea through the Logline Gauntlet of the external requirement the market is looking for and the internal criteria you'll want to meet to ensure your idea will make a story worth telling.



What do past students say?

Stop getting ghosted. Get those queries answered instead.

Give them a logline they can't refuse.

Perfecting The Logline Mini-Course

The standard package. With this, you get:

  • The full Perfecting The Logline Mini-Course over five key lessons.
  • A template for a great logline that you will have for the rest of your career.
  • “The Logline Gauntlet”, a series of questions that guide you through the crucial steps of the logline.
  • Private one-hour coaching session with a professional screenwriter of 27 years to help you form that perfect logline.

$99

I want that killer logline

Perfecting The Logline plus Coaching

The deluxe package. With this, you get:

  • The full Perfecting The Logline Mini-Course over five key lessons.
  • A template for a great logline that you will have for the rest of your career.
  • “The Logline Gauntlet”, a series of questions that guide you through the crucial steps of the logline.
  • Private one-hour coaching session with a professional screenwriter of 27 years to help you form that perfect logline.

$248

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