Comments on: The Joy of the One Page Synopsis https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:02:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joanne Cleary https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1075 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:02:19 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1075 Ooh this is so hard isn’t it (and I’m hating blogger when it refuses to tell me you’ve done a new post!)

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1070 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:10:00 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1070 Ooh, pressure’s on for the next one Lacey. It’ll probably be crap! 😉

Sure Lorraine. I’ll write it for you. For a small fee. 😉

]]> By: Lorraine https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1069 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:47:36 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1069 Hey, can you write mine for me?!!! 2 page synopses I love writing but 1 pagers I hate.
I know, I know, I need to learn 🙂

Great post Jackie

]]> By: Lacey Devlin https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1068 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:37:47 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1068 There’s that dreaded word “synopsis” again! lol Fab post Jackie, can’t wait to see the next one 😀

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1067 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:19:46 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1067 Hope so, Suzanne! At least, this is how I would critique it if someone sent it to me.

]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1066 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:49:54 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1066 It makes perfect sense when you explain it, Jackie. Thank you so much for posting this.

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]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1065 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:57:05 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1065 I’m hoping I don’t end up giving you a Turkish Delight, Veronica! Or worse (for me at least) a coconut one.

Glad it’s been helpful, Joyce. Keep asking yourself those ‘why’ questions. You can’t include everything in a short synopsis so only keep the internal conflict and the main emotional turning points of the story.

]]> By: Joyce https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1064 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:42:04 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1064 Thank you, that was seriously eye opening in what I’ve been doing wrong.

]]> By: Veronica https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1063 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:16:58 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1063 I’m so looking forward to your follow up synopsis.

I spent the weekend working on my comp one and you’re absolutely right. Bare bones is the way to go. At this point it reads like a house of cards, pull something out and everything collapses, as one sentence flows onto the next. Of course, now I’m having a hair tearing moment ‘cos there’s a line I want to shift as it’s out sequence (from the story).

I’m comparing your blog to a box of chocolates. I never know what I’m going to learn, but it’s bound to be good (so long as it’s not Turkish Delight…never did acquire the taste for it. I’m more of a soft centre/cointreau choc truffle type)

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/the-joy-of-the-one-page-synopsis/#comment-1062 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:41:24 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=510#comment-1062 Veronica, the synopsis is only to tell the editor you actually have a story to go with the partial. And also so she can see how the conflicts play out and how they’re resolved. So, yep, anything that does not revolve around the central conflict should be omitted. As should be any ‘voice’ type fancy-bits in your writing. You’ll see how I manage that in the updated synop. When I do it. Argh! 🙂

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