{"id":1153,"date":"2007-03-27T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/writing-a-snappy-synopsis.html"},"modified":"2007-03-27T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T00:18:00","slug":"writing-snappy-synopsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/writing-snappy-synopsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing A Snappy Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/Rghm8D8ASiI\/AAAAAAAAAOY\/2AagKk7g2cU\/s1600-h\/penandpaper.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/Rghm8D8ASiI\/AAAAAAAAAOY\/2AagKk7g2cU\/s400\/penandpaper.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046396564503808546\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is just one way to write a synopsis <strong>when the book has already been written<\/strong>. Read through one scene, after you have read the scene, write a sentence or so summary of that scene. Repeat this for each scene in the book. Once you have finished reading the book, you&#8217;ll have a synopsis! You&#8217;ll then need to expand\/contract this synopsis in order to suit a publisher&#8217;s guidelines. If they want chapter-by-chapter synopsis, then you&#8217;ll break your synopsis up into chapters. If the publisher wants a three-page synopsis, then you&#8217;ll need to rephrase, paraphrase, cut words, etc, to suit the demands of that particular publisher. It&#8217;s a fun exercise to try once the book is done. <\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just one way to write a synopsis when the book has already been written. Read through one scene, after you have read the scene, write a sentence or so summary of that scene. Repeat this for each scene in the book. Once you have finished reading the book, you&#8217;ll have a synopsis! You&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}