Gracie on May 7th, 2010

As we close the posts on the Two Page Synopsis I’ll show you how you can expand a couple of other sections so that you can do the same for the remaining points and complete your Two Pager on your own.
Last time, we expanded our Heroine’s backstory and internal conflict, which gave an example of [...]

Continue reading about The Two Page Synopsis (Part 2)

Okay. You’ve got the fifty word heart of your novel. What do you do with it? Expand it out to ten pages? No. You now use this distillation to write a three or four paragraph back-of-the-book teaser first.
There are three excellent reasons to write the teaser now.

To look at the work as a reader not [...]

Continue reading about Your Novel–In Four Paragraphs Or Less (Aspect 1)

Gracie on April 22nd, 2009

I’m happy to report that I finished the final sentence of the “plot in a paragraph” exercise, so I now have a slightly more detailed idea of where I’m heading. I’m currently working on the next part; an analysis of each of the main characters. For the first time ever I have a better idea of [...]

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