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