In this post we’re continuing with our series about writing a synopsis. If you’re joining us for the first time you might want to have a look at the previous posts (found on the Series Page). In those we’ve seen that by condensing the essence of our novel into something small (the fifty word High [...]
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)
Question Number Three
“I’ve been told my characters aren’t believable. What does that mean?”
It means that the characters don’t behave in a way that is consistent with the reader’s expectations. Their actions or reactions to people and events are not in harmony with the picture the reader has built up from bits and pieces of backstory [...]
I’ve always enjoyed creating characters, probably because I find people–and the way they tick–interesting in real life. Being able to fashion a person with all her strengths and flaws from the ground up is a fascinating experience. It’s even more fun when you also get to manufacture the situations that are going to completely screw [...]
A funny thing happened while I was doing my character exercises this week. It occurred to me that I could be looking at the whole thing from the wrong perspective. I’d given the heroine a certain storyline, the hero another…and then I thought, “What if?”.
What if I put my heroine in the hero’s shoes, gave [...]
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