Right now I am currently working hard on a synopsis and my gum it's harder than the novel itself, that just flowed and even wheni did stop for researching purposes, it just flowed like a river. From what I have researched, it must tell the entire story, have the main characters emotions and motivations and the resolutions to them. Well I have an outline I'm asking a few people to read it, one person who has never even read any of my Nightshade notes let alone the old revision.
To be sure, it really is a bane of the authors life, a synopsis, blurbs are easier because it's just a taste while the synopsis. Let's just say, you could have the greatest novel in the world but if that synopsis is rubbish the publisher won't even entertain it. It will be thrown to one side without your manuscript even being looked at. Kinder hard I hear you say and it is, what a lot of budding authors don't know is this is a business, publishers don't publish and distribute their books for their dream or out of charity, they do it because the story is good and will make them money. It sucks that while our dreams are coming true, someone else is getting rich off them, whether that be a publisher or a literary agent or both. But that's life, just think of all those agents that turned down JK and Harry Potter, they must be soooo gutted.
I named this blog an interlude, well apart from putting the new novels on hold and finishing an old one, I have decided I want to knit something. Normally all I knit is scarfs, but inhave found a nice easy patters for hand warmers. Nice. I have too much wool from when I was expecting my son you see. I can't really knife anything complicated so this is nice. I think I will make some for my friends if it works out well.
So I was thinking I might finish my synopsis and maybe, but only maybe put it up here. But that's only a maybe.
Tatty bye and take care lovies
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