I've been told until the manuscript is completed, there is no way to write the synopsis. When I first heard this piece of advice I was bull-headed. There was no way to know what was going to happen and if you've got things happening without the dreaded three or five pages of review. This, the synopsis, was way to knowing if you had an idea or a story, if you had conflict, but most of all if you had the three cores [beginning, middle, and ending.]
With each project I've done after learning about synopsis, premise, theme, and message, I've made certain to attempt to iron-out these required pre-writing tools for my project. But as I would finish, I felt uncertainty with what I had. This uncertainty would manifest into an nonpunishable manuscript; although these jewels were lessons, they were lessons that were slowly cut from stone. My frustrations couldn't subside because I knew that those formerly mentioned pre-writing tools were part of a writer's stable of tools which enables the writer to go about writing sketches and organizing the mammoth that is a novel of an idea. Finally after no longer pretending that I could complete these tools pre-written manuscript, in Hour of Change I was able to go from synopsis to the writing of the 1st draft with the shifting ease of an automatic transmission. The writing gods and goddesses were kind upon me; but, more than that, I was the one who made the decision that I would go back and forward with the pieces until I had something that resembled an outline and 1st draft manuscript. These two birth the synopsis and polished first 50 pages. Which is the purpose of this blog post. You will need a good, hardy, consistent, outline. Nothing too deep but something that will take you to your destination with little sight-seeing that many novelist include in the completion of the manuscript. Many writers, such as myself, believe that we can't begin without a synopsis but whatever synopsis that is written will need to be constantly updated until the novel is finished, i.e. placing the details that will not/ could not come out until the actual writing. Making it more liken to an outline. An outline that I prefer. The synopsis which is required for submission to an agent or a publisher will not look like the ones written when the story is first coming to you. As they should. This means one of the biggest headaches can now be let go of. Just drop the rope. The secret, I learned, nail the synopsis through re-writing until you can start writing sketches, defining setting, and fleshing out characters. Then put that darn synopsis in the brainstorming file which you should have squeezed all life out this file contents. Start the manuscript writing process. Finish it. Then write the synopsis draft for solicitation. Compare it to what you've actually have in your manuscript then adjust as needed: either on the synopsis end or the manuscript's. Repeat this process until what you intended to say when you first wrote the synopsis is what you're saying in the manuscript, but more importantly in the synopsis. First advertisement, this highly glorified book review/report could actually determine the rate of speed that your project get published or sat in a drawer until skill match dream. Thanks for Listening Sabrina Louise Andielle
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