Day 14 (Team July)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Good Day!

Here's today's prompt for your writing updates and for any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have.

Comments

Synopsis

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say I did something not White Feathers related but in reality it was, I was working on the synopsis. I've got as far as the Terrible Horrible Awful Thing* and that's already nearly 1,700 words. Gulp! When it's down like that in bullet prose, bang bang bang bang bang, the whole novel seems extremely busy. I worry excessively so. Still, at least I am able to remember the plot in the first place...

*Well, there's loads of them. But you know what I mean.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

How do you use the synopsis--is it just to keep track of scenes and plot?

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

He Who Must Be Obeyed reckons I should polish up the first three chapters and submit them. To do that, I need a synopsis. And I'd say the plot is reasonably fixed now. But it's useful in that way too.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

That's a lot harder than a synopsis just for your own use then. I'll wish you good luck with it :)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Synopsis writing is all part of it. Good luck getting in finishes, and then possibly paring it down.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Thank you- I will certainly have to cut it down a little!

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of writing, useful for reference and overview, I would imagine. (I've never gotten beyond an outline with occasional notes tucked in!) About what percentage through the plot do you think you've reached with the THAT? What inspired you to write the plot up this way?

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

About 60 per cent by now. And many agent houses etc require synopsis which is why I'm writing one. My partner reckons I should start refining the opening section to send a partial to agents etc.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. So 40% to go. Maybe you tweak something here or there once you're done, but don't second guess what you've worked so diligently on. Why shouldn't a plot be complex?

Thanks

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I hope I'll get the rest done today and then tidy it up a little. I've read that it's ok for a synopsis not to focus on every single event and action so I'll take that as a guide.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, we have a title! I once wrote a story called White Feather but, of course, a mere trifle compared to yours.

Bullet prose?

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a story called White Feathers as well :) but the story was incomplete, didn't sound right, and something kept nagging at me. Other people kept sending me links about the whole thing and mentioning it. So...

Hah, yes, good point about the prose. I think I could lose that battle scene I showed you earlier, but I'll see how things go.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Good luck getting it sorted! :)

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)