Where do they days go?

Hello lovies!

How are you,nice weekend? I decorated for all of the weekend myself.

As you know the write a thin has been out on hold so I can do the final checks on Nightshade and work on my synopsis.  Let me tell you, while checks are slow but great, the synopsys is doing my nut in! Like my best friend Kassie said, in not so many words, how can one possibly condense an entire novel into a short story, because that's what they want you to do when you think about it.

Look at it this way, you spend months, maybe a year or two to make it perfect only to discover that you have to write a short essay, a short story even explaining the highlights of the novel,characters etc. fellow novelist out there will sympathize with me I'm sure, it's the bane of a writers life to be sure.  First of all, from what I can see, there are so many and different ways of writing a synopsis.  I think the best thing I have found recently is asking your chosen publisher directly what they want from a synopsis, or lookie on their website.  For example, one major player in the business wants a full synopsis, from layout, to,characters, from plot to twists to resolutions to revaluations and even the possibility of any follow on.  In other words do youmhave a series and if so a quick out line of the first possible paragraph of the next in line. (Anyone who has researched this will know whom I am directing tht part at) they are very......demanding because of their high standing in the publishing world.  I'm not sure if they mind the max number of pages for all this information. They didn't hint at anything, but of course I camt send in a twenty page synopsis, so I guess it's just common knowledge.  They also require double spacing too.

Now a smaller publisher who concentrate on schools and libraries ask only for something smaller, who,what when where why and how it ends. Something that is to the point and the expected no more that four or five pages Long.  

Then there's word count, I fall into the hot stuff barge pole category and I don't mean, wow this is the next Harry Potter.  Nope, my novel is over one hundred thousand words, it's very fifty fifty as to whether I will get main stream or not for this fact, so I have to make this synopsis the best ever.  

I'm really lucky though, I have Kassie my best friend, she has given me some great advice, she's the best because she gives me what I need.....the truth.  Friends and family will say, ohhh,that's sooo good it's amazing.  But they won't tell you if there's a real problem to save your feelings.  Grrr. I need truth.  Everyone needs a Kassie!

 My muses have been very silent recently, they seems to have given me a flood of novel ideas and said, there you go, get on with it. Hehe.

Well enough of me ranting bout the dagger in my side that is the synopsis.

Tatty bye and take care

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