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More in the way of victorious things
I have now managed to wrangle my synopsis down to one page, which was an accomplishment that I will be forever proud of, because it was kind of like climbing Mt. Everest in my shorts on a windy day, except not that easy and with more pain and angst and gnashing of teeth. Sherpas were lost, people left to die on the icy heights. It wasn't pretty.
So after I have fought and struggled and have narrowed down 82,000 words into a one page summary, there is the problem of formatting. There is, apparently, no consolidated format for a synopsis. Some have things hanging out on the right margins, some in the left. Double and single spacing are both valid, and some have full headers, some just put the genre (but apparently not the title) in one of the upper corners.
The format that is suggested in Give 'Em What They Want: The Right Way to Pitch your Novel to Editors and Agents is much simpler than some of the ones I've seen online, but that book only touches on mainstream and mystery genres. Maybe there's some sort of SF/F genre type format that agents who see SF/F queries and synopses prefer. ID-fucking-K.
But there are folks out there who have done this dance before, so any help you could give would mean that I owe you big time. I'm broke, but I can move furniture and bury bodies like a champ, so if you ever need me.
Also, it would be good for my hair because it will help me to stop pulling them out and also keep me from using the ALL CAPS ITALICS OF RAGE.
So after I have fought and struggled and have narrowed down 82,000 words into a one page summary, there is the problem of formatting. There is, apparently, no consolidated format for a synopsis. Some have things hanging out on the right margins, some in the left. Double and single spacing are both valid, and some have full headers, some just put the genre (but apparently not the title) in one of the upper corners.
The format that is suggested in Give 'Em What They Want: The Right Way to Pitch your Novel to Editors and Agents is much simpler than some of the ones I've seen online, but that book only touches on mainstream and mystery genres. Maybe there's some sort of SF/F genre type format that agents who see SF/F queries and synopses prefer. ID-fucking-K.
But there are folks out there who have done this dance before, so any help you could give would mean that I owe you big time. I'm broke, but I can move furniture and bury bodies like a champ, so if you ever need me.
Also, it would be good for my hair because it will help me to stop pulling them out and also keep me from using the ALL CAPS ITALICS OF RAGE.
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That's all right :) I kind of figured you might have had a life besides, you know, helping me out. Besides, you've already done so much to help me. I owe you big time.
I suppose yours is just one page, which amazes the hell out of me.
Well, a couple of the agents specified that they like their synopses to be one page only, and a couple said 1 to 3 pages, so I saved a slightly longer version that has a bit more of the flavor of the story to it, but yeah, the one page version? Was hell to right. I had to make some hard choices about what counts as an "important" plot point.
So now all that remains it to go over it again and then send the queries and synopses out and...wait. I think that part's going to be harder than all the other parts put together.