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Questions, questions
Jan. 3rd, 2007 06:25 pmFirstly, I hope the first three days of 2007 have been terrific for everyone, and that 2007 will prove to be a year of great luck, great growth, great fortune, and great happiness for you all.
I keep getting reminded that "firstly" is not actually a word. But given that I just typed it up and used it in a sentence - it's a word.
Hey, "googling" isn't a word either, but I don't see people correcting the pants off people who use that.
Secondly, I need a little help from my peeps.
Let's say that a person wants to start scraping together a synopsis of a novel, so that they can have this synopsis to send out when agents/publishers ask for "sample chapters and synopsis".
What, exactly, should this synopsis look like? What's the format? I know manuscript format pretty well, but is there synopsis or outline format? How should I handle that?
Since I know a lot of you out there have submitted, are submitting, or will submit I thought you might have some pointers. Or possibly a handy dandy little example so that I can see what it's supposed to look like.
And for those who didn't get the subtext, yes. This does mean that given some more editing/tweaking/rewriting I am going to - *gulp* - start sending Revenant Blues out.
Not that I don't fully expect, anticipate, and count on catastrophic failure or anything. But, still. I've heard that your chances of getting published rise dramatically when the manuscript is somewhere *besides* your harddrive.
I keep getting reminded that "firstly" is not actually a word. But given that I just typed it up and used it in a sentence - it's a word.
Hey, "googling" isn't a word either, but I don't see people correcting the pants off people who use that.
Secondly, I need a little help from my peeps.
Let's say that a person wants to start scraping together a synopsis of a novel, so that they can have this synopsis to send out when agents/publishers ask for "sample chapters and synopsis".
What, exactly, should this synopsis look like? What's the format? I know manuscript format pretty well, but is there synopsis or outline format? How should I handle that?
Since I know a lot of you out there have submitted, are submitting, or will submit I thought you might have some pointers. Or possibly a handy dandy little example so that I can see what it's supposed to look like.
And for those who didn't get the subtext, yes. This does mean that given some more editing/tweaking/rewriting I am going to - *gulp* - start sending Revenant Blues out.
Not that I don't fully expect, anticipate, and count on catastrophic failure or anything. But, still. I've heard that your chances of getting published rise dramatically when the manuscript is somewhere *besides* your harddrive.
