Comments on: Getting Rid of the Box

By: Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Ashenden — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:25:51 +0000

Kerrin – 😉 Why does no one want to write my synop for me??

Joanne – oh, yay, someone does! Sadly I’ve now already written it. Thanks! Wouldn’t want any Kiwi type rooting. That’s for the books.;-)

By: Joanne Coles

Joanne Coles — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:02:28 +0000

Yes! I will write your synop for $500 of your lovely Kiwi dollars. Anyone else want me to write theirs for them?

Not saying they'll be any good, but I'll write 'em!!

Seriously, well done on getting out of your box and the work flowing. Best of luck with your sub, we're all rooting for you. In a totally British, non rude way of course :-)

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:47:09 +0000

glad it’s working for you Jackie – but not thanks to the synop! you can have that one 😉

By: Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Ashenden — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:52:51 +0000

Judy - Thank! Yeah, hate the synopsis too. I have no idea what happens in my story!

Francine - great tip, thanks! It's the emotional development of the last half that's getting me at the moment. Perhaps I'm complicating it.

Lacey - if only it was!

Maya - um...*thinks about it*...no. :-)

Maisey - sorry, I should have said that's $500 Kiwi. Which is about $250 US. Not enough for an iPad. Sniff. Yeah, got no problem with ridding mysel of the box. I wish I'd realised earlier that's what was holding me back!

Caroline - yay, another tip for me! Thanks!

Susan - yeah, that's it isn't it? People say it's the first three chapters that counts, but having had a lot of synopses pulled apart by editors, I can't be cavalier with it. Hence the angst.

Suzanne - thanks for the hugs. Time to dive in again I guess. Wish me luck!

By: Suzanne Jones

Suzanne Jones — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:30:30 +0000

Good news about chapters 2 and 3. And hugs for the synopsis writing - officially my least favourite thing to do in the world.

XX

By: susanwilson44

susanwilson44 — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:20:49 +0000

Sorry Jackie but there’s one hundred other horrible things I would rather do than write a synopsis. Trying to cram everything into two pages just seems impossible, but more than that, I hate the fact people can pick flaws and come back with lots of comments. They say what about this?… and what about that? And I think – read the whole story and then you’ll know!

By: Maisey

Maisey — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:04:53 +0000

For $500 I’ll do it. It’ll buy me my iPad….but trust me, you don’t want *me* to write your synopsis. Trust me. Trust. Me.

I hear you re the box. It’s hard to let it all go and let your characters. Very hard. But when you do, the freedom is amazing and the MS will be too!!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:24:51 +0000

Nicola Marsh did a thing on synopsis and proposals a while back. I printed both out and put them side by side to see how different they were. See if she still has it on her blog site – it might help, especially as she writes Modern Heat. Good luck Jackie – Caroline x

By: Maya

Maya — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:22:44 +0000

Yayyy on getting the two chapters done! On the synopsis front, how about we do a swap? I’ll do yours, you do mine? No? Oh well, I did try, lol!

By: Lacey Devlin

Lacey Devlin — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:06:57 +0000

You’ve got the hang of writing those little critters now and with your conflict all sorted it’s going to be easy 🙂