There's something about synopses...
May. 5th, 2009 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alyson_m...that makes me want to curl up in a ball and put myself in a coma for a few decades.
I've finished writing the rough draft of the synopsis for Novel 2, which is women's fiction, 48k words. It's really quite a straightforward story, right? It comes out to about 97 pages in Word or equivalent software. Which means that an appropriately paced synopsis ought to be, what, 2 pages?
Even cutting out the theme, tone and background parts? This one's 6 pages.
Which means I need to hack it down to approximately 1/3 its size. And this time, I actually have an agent who wants to see a query for this! But it's already been over 2 weeks since she asked to see it, and she might not remember it if I keep twiddling my thumbs.
Now, if you'll excuse me while I beat the damn thing into submission (no pun intended)...
I've finished writing the rough draft of the synopsis for Novel 2, which is women's fiction, 48k words. It's really quite a straightforward story, right? It comes out to about 97 pages in Word or equivalent software. Which means that an appropriately paced synopsis ought to be, what, 2 pages?
Even cutting out the theme, tone and background parts? This one's 6 pages.
Which means I need to hack it down to approximately 1/3 its size. And this time, I actually have an agent who wants to see a query for this! But it's already been over 2 weeks since she asked to see it, and she might not remember it if I keep twiddling my thumbs.
Now, if you'll excuse me while I beat the damn thing into submission (no pun intended)...
