Writing a synopsis

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Caroline Hogg has worked in publishing for almost ten years. She is Senior Commissioning Editor for Commercial Women’s Fiction at Pan Macmillan. This week a Novelicious reader asked: Writing a synopsis is notoriously difficult and I find […]

If you're a writer, you may have heard the word Synopsis and depending on what publishing route you are hoping to take, you may have to write one.

It is true that many writers won't emphasize on outlining a novel. After all, they write fascinating books without outlines. But, the importance of detailing the outline for your novel is enormous.

You wrote a novel. You revised and revised and revised. You've spent hours and days and maybe years working on this baby, and now you're ready to send your baby out into the world. As you prep your submission package, whether to an agent or a publisher, they keep asking for one specific thing: a…

Struggling to write a synopsis for your novel? If you're planning to traditionally publish your novel, you need a synopsis when you query for an agent, but synopsis can also be a helpful tool for an indie author planning to self-publish. Swipe through the carousel to read my tips for writing a novel synopsis and the template I used for the synopsis of my current writing project.

Writers are funny creatures. Many of us aren’t intimidated at the thought of writing a 300 + page novel, but ask us to write a 500 word synopsis, and suddenly we want to curl up and hide.And …

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Struggling to write a synopsis for your novel? If you're planning to traditionally publish your novel, you need a synopsis when you query for an agent, but synopsis can also be a helpful tool for an indie author planning to self-publish. Swipe through the carousel to read my tips for writing a novel synopsis and the template I used for the synopsis of my current writing project.

…or at least, I think it did! A few weeks ago, I was on Pinterest, checking out my feed page, when I came across a meme titled, “6 Sentence Synopsis Method”. Turns out, it was a l…

It goes something like this: Writing is fun. Reading (your own work) is tolerable. Revising is hell. Writing a synopsis is self-inflicted torture. I think that pretty much sums up my experiences in…