PSA

[mmerriam]

Writing a novel synopsis is hard, sucky work.

That is all.

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

AMEN!

[jerwine.livejournal.com]

I'll second that!

[pjthompson]

Oh, baby, is it!

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

Nothing blows quite like it.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Nope, not really.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Isn't it ever.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

This is my least favorite part of the process. So of course I'm going to make myself good at it, because that's what I do when faced with something I don't like to do, but must.

[paraselenic.livejournal.com]

I think it all depends on whether you want to write a good synopsis or not.

You could pull a burroughs-esque type move and just grab a middle chapter, hack it into pieces, and pull pieces from a purple top hat whilst doing a shooter of beer in between each draw. Using an elementary combination of paste, flour and water, affix said drawn bits to a balloon, climb onto the roof with your handy dandy super slingshot (everybody needs one)and fling the balloon over the neighbor's house. Using a rubber band bb gun, or potato gun, shoot down said balloon. Whatever words you can scrounge from neighbors yard before he calls the police are retyped into a nice little word document in no particular order at all, with the exception that all letter "s" characters become "t" and vice verca.

You could end up with a work of genius.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

"Ladies and Gentlemen, paraselenic for the win!

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

It is: especially when they ask for it all to be squished into one page. :(

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm just breaking it down scene by scene, distilling it to the basic story.

[cartazon.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

But you know the alternatives. (Puppets.)

As far as the downside of a job goes, I'll take synopsis writing any day of the week.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree with that!

[ken-schneyer.livejournal.com]

I've never tried it, but I have a deepdown suspicion that the only reason anything I write is interesting is because of the way I actually phrased it on the page -- so that any summary of my writing would be inherently uninteresting.

But I'll wait until I've written a novel, then try it and let you know.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it is.

[racingboo.livejournal.com]

All that is needed.