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ksmithI've never written one, at least not one that I would be comfortable calling a synopsis.
I have written outlines, because they were required by my contracts. Very long outlines. 60-75 manuscript pages, of which my former agent used to say that all I had to do was add dialogue and I'd have the book. Except sometimes I did add dialogue. None of that dialogue ever wound up in the final books, that I recall.
My synopsis for the latest book is the closest I have come to something reasonable. 25 manuscript pages or so, with not a line of dialogue to be seen. I can't post it, of course, 'cause the book ain't writ yet.
My first book, CODE, was shopped as a completed manuscript. For the two other books in that contract, RULES and LAW, I wrote one paragraph mini-synopses along the lines of "Jani shows up. Weapons fire. The End." Not much detail, and not a lot of help with regards compressing a plot of a novel into a few pages.
So, follow the links and read these synopses by folks who wrote them, and wrote them well.
I have written outlines, because they were required by my contracts. Very long outlines. 60-75 manuscript pages, of which my former agent used to say that all I had to do was add dialogue and I'd have the book. Except sometimes I did add dialogue. None of that dialogue ever wound up in the final books, that I recall.
My synopsis for the latest book is the closest I have come to something reasonable. 25 manuscript pages or so, with not a line of dialogue to be seen. I can't post it, of course, 'cause the book ain't writ yet.
My first book, CODE, was shopped as a completed manuscript. For the two other books in that contract, RULES and LAW, I wrote one paragraph mini-synopses along the lines of "Jani shows up. Weapons fire. The End." Not much detail, and not a lot of help with regards compressing a plot of a novel into a few pages.
So, follow the links and read these synopses by folks who wrote them, and wrote them well.
