Writing, in general is not the piece of cake everyone thinks it is. Sure you sit down in front of your laptop or PC, and you write, right?
Wrong!
It's much harder than that. It's character outlining, plot outlining, making sure there are no plotholes, enough drama, proper flow, character development, correct grammar, punctuation, the list goes on! Sure it's all fun and game until someone dies, but, unless you're a writer, most people don't realize what the writing process is really like. I'm not even mentioning the editing, proofreading, rewriting, adding, deleting, second round of editing... A list too daunting to finish.
Anyway, before I get completely sidetracked (as I usually do), there's a part of the process even more scary than the actual writing...
Dum dum duuuum!
Writing the synopsis...
Okay, everyone settle down now.
So even though my knees tremble at the thought of writing a short synopsis, it has to be done.
Now, here is my dilemma...
My draft is 90k+ words... Over seventeen chapters, and I have only three paragraphs to write a basic description to hook the reader, WITHOUT GIVING TOO MUCH AWAY.... hmmm...
Conflict is throughout the whole novel, lots of drama, lots of things happening, how to summarize it all?
There are lots of blogs, pages etc online to help with the writing of a synopsis, or blurb as they like to call it. People tend to look at me funny when I talk about a blurb (I'm from South Africa). Most of these pages give you valuable tips and hints how to write the best blurb you can.
Makes the Blurb Mountain seem more like a blurb molehill, doesn't it?
Well, I'm off, starting with step one, turn off all wifi...
Happy writing
xxx S
Wrong!
It's much harder than that. It's character outlining, plot outlining, making sure there are no plotholes, enough drama, proper flow, character development, correct grammar, punctuation, the list goes on! Sure it's all fun and game until someone dies, but, unless you're a writer, most people don't realize what the writing process is really like. I'm not even mentioning the editing, proofreading, rewriting, adding, deleting, second round of editing... A list too daunting to finish.
Anyway, before I get completely sidetracked (as I usually do), there's a part of the process even more scary than the actual writing...
Dum dum duuuum!
Writing the synopsis...
Okay, everyone settle down now.
So even though my knees tremble at the thought of writing a short synopsis, it has to be done.
Now, here is my dilemma...
My draft is 90k+ words... Over seventeen chapters, and I have only three paragraphs to write a basic description to hook the reader, WITHOUT GIVING TOO MUCH AWAY.... hmmm...
Conflict is throughout the whole novel, lots of drama, lots of things happening, how to summarize it all?
There are lots of blogs, pages etc online to help with the writing of a synopsis, or blurb as they like to call it. People tend to look at me funny when I talk about a blurb (I'm from South Africa). Most of these pages give you valuable tips and hints how to write the best blurb you can.
Makes the Blurb Mountain seem more like a blurb molehill, doesn't it?
Well, I'm off, starting with step one, turn off all wifi...
Happy writing
xxx S