Comments on: The Joy of the One Page Synopsis – Part Two https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:49:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1100 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:49:34 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1100 Hi Elizabeth, yep, I’m an example girl too. As for Kate’s wanting a baby, great spotting! Yes indeed, her reasons for her desperation should be in there. You can kind of work out why (wanting a family of her own after her own have died) but it’s not at all obvious. If this was a real sub, I’d be thanking you muchly for pointing this out and editing it in response!

Thanks Kaily. Like I said to Elizabeth, I really like examples as well – the theory is all well and good but I need to see the practise.

]]> By: Kaily Hart https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1096 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:50:18 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1096 Thanks for sharing. It’s great to read about the theory behind writing a synopsis and even see examples in books or online, but to see how another author in a similar place as me does it for real; invaluable!

]]> By: Elisabeth https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1093 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:57:02 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1093 Hiya Jackie,

Thanks very much for posting a very clear example of a synopsis, detailing the conflicts, the turning points, the black moment, etc etc. I’m afraid I’m one of those idiots who always need examples to understand.

However I do have one query about a particular point in your synopsis, relating to Kate. You state:

Kate wants the baby desperately, wants to have a family again…

Alex’s emotional reaction to that piece of news is brilliantly revealed, but I don’t think Kate’s emotional reaction to being pregnant is.

All we learn is that she wants the baby desperately, but we have absolutely no idea why.

After having read the synopsis up to that point, I’m afraid I had a ‘WTF’ moment when I read that sentence.

So my question is: should the synopsis also have contained more about why Kate wanted this baby?

Cheers,
Liz.

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1089 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:20:31 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1089 No worries Suzanne. Hope you find the post of some help.

Caroline, don’t sweat the synop too much. It’s the chapter that matters in the end.

]]> By: Caroline Storer https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1088 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:39:04 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1088 Thanks Jackie – very informative post and very timely I can tell you. Having read this I will use it as a “proof” for my synopsis which I can already tell you ‘ain’t nothing like it should be! Ah well. Still got a month to get it right – or as right as it ever will be! Take care. Caroline x

]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1087 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:19:29 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1087 ps Sorry I was so late commenting, like Joanne, I didn’t know you’d updated.

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]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1086 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:17:51 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1086 Thank you, Jackie. Am about to embark on my comp entry so your advice is invaluable and very well timed.

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]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1085 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:47:29 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1085 Cheers Becca! The synopsis comes to us all in the end. 🙂

]]> By: Becca J. Heath https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1084 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:43:26 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1084 Thanks Jackie!
Interesting stuff, as always. Need to write a synopsis soon – i’ll certainly be back here then.

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis-part-two/#comment-1083 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:14:32 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=509#comment-1083 Yep, I reckon they have too, Lacey. In fact, when I sent my last sub off and I had to do a two page single spaced synop, I had so much space, I didn’t really know what do do with it!

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