Hey TSL fan, producer Jeff here and we're doing something a little different and very exciting this week and that's giving you a sneak preview of what it's like to join our Patreon.

We launched our Patreon last year and since then we've been able to run about 10 workshops

featuring both Megan Lorian.

I hopped in and did a workshop and we've even featured guest speakers and it's just been

such a fun, inclusive, exciting, and wildly motivational experience even for me.

And what a blast it's been to get to know our Patreon community a little better through

the workshops. and speaking of our

patron community one of the things we love about it is that it's kind of a safe and

protected space for our patrons which means that you know during these

workshops you all are making tons of contributions and asking questions and you know

volunteering your material for feedback but I didn't include any of that today because I want to protect them

so today's samples of our patron will be purely devoted to our speaker. to join our patron later in the show but for now I say we just dive right in.

So for our first Patreon snippet we're gonna be hearing a tiny sample of the

workshop on loglines that Sheila Hanahan Taylor gave. Sheila is one of

our most experienced producers in the business and she has a really sharp and I think

generative way that she thinks about log lines in terms of our writing. So I'm going to stop talking and let her jump in.

Here's a sample from our Sheila

Hanahan Taylor logline workshop. So any list you look at is going to tell you

that you need a couple main components which is like who's the story about your

protagonist,

what that protagonist is striving for,

what their goal is, and what's gonna stand in that way,

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