How to Write a Synopsis in Ten Steps

Post author By Dan Alatorre AUTHOR
Post date June 4, 2016
12 Comments on How to Write a Synopsis in Ten Steps

This has some good ideas

http://www.thinkingthroughourfingers.com/2016/06/how-to-write-synopsis-in-ten-steps.html

12 replies on “How to Write a Synopsis in Ten Steps”

I’m just glad it didn’t say “ten EASY steps”! 😀 Well, I guess if you already have figured out the structure of your novel and it fits those ten points nicely, then the writing-it-up part is relatively easy. But what if your novel doesn’t fit that ten-point structure? Uh-oh.

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They aren’t easy, are they?

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I hate following directions….blah. Feels too confining.

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It IS. And I’m not sure I agree with this. But there might be a helpful tip for someone because writing synopses SUCKS. Btw some people are awesome at it.

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Me and summaries aren’t good dance partners. My “elevator speech” makes you feel like you’re trapped in a submarine 20,000 feet under AND THERE IS NO WAY OUT EXCEPT SHARKS which seems like the better option….

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Ha. Awesome.

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It was an interesting article and I appreciated the use of a book I was so familiar with for the step by step process. However, at a convention earlier this year I went to a panel entitled why editors pass. One editor said she NEVER reads a synopsis unless she’s read the first ten to twenty pages and is fairly certain she wants more, then she might ask for a synopsis or she might just ask for the rest of the novel. ALL the other editors agreed with her. Just FYI.

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Yep. Their job is to read and find stories by good authors, not to read synopses.

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Thank you for this. It was nice to read one agency’s site that said of the synopsis, “This will be the worst writing you ever do.” Ha. But what a relief. 🙂

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