This question came up today on a loop I’m part of, and I thought I’d share (with Nicki’s permission) both question and answer because they might help someone else too.
There I was, all happy and excited that a short scene from the villain’s POV (628 words) just flowed like water. Until I started pondering [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today we’re continuing with our ten point implementation of the requirements for a character-based synopsis. These are:
The hook
The heroine, her backstory, and internal conflict
The hero, his backstory and internal conflict
The external conflict
First stage co-operation
Intimacy
Reversion
Second stage co-operation
Black moment
Resolution
Last time, we tackled points one through three. If you’ve missed out on the journey so far, it’s not too [...]
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)
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