ever do so much THINKING about your story that you know you’re going to scream :cursing: or throw yourself off the nearest cliff…or drink yourself senseless??? :beer: I wrote my synopsis for my proposal this week. Yes, scary enough thought there. But I kept trying to nail down internal conflicts and emotional arcs and external conflicts and am I showing the character’s growth???
:wtf: Sometimes the actual details of nailing all this down in the synopsis makes me INSANE a little crazy :crazy2:
Do you try to nail down all of that when you’re writing your synopsis. Do you write your synopsis after the book is done? After a few chapters? Before you start writing anything else???
This week, for my frustration entertainment…I get to revise the synopsis and cut out about 2-3 pages from it 😯
You can do it, Kacey! Take out anything unrelated to emotional growth. Go, Kacey, Go! :beer:
I would rather write syn after the book was done! But I now I have to do it before and they are really tough. They are my least favorite thing to write. argh. :cool2:
I write the synopsis after I’m done with the book. I don’t worry about character arcs and internal conflicts. If the story goes how I plan, those issues take care of themselves. If I ever have to write a synopsis first, I better fake it pretty good.
Oh yeah, and when I start thinking about my story to that point, I say to myself “Don’t think, Meat, you can only hurt the ball club.”
Go, Kacey, go!!!
I know EXACTLY how you feel. In fact, I was just there about two weeks ago. My advice is to distance yourself from it a bit – when we get too close to our work, it makes it more difficult for us to “see” what’s going on.
Writing the synopsis first is sooo hard. It’s the hardest part for me. I think so much about it and want to get it just right. And then I write the story and the whole damn thing changes anyway.
By the way, I meant to answer you in my blog comments…thanks so much for picking up my book! Yay! Where’s the big smooch smiley?