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Monday, June 7, 2010

MS#3 - Seven (in which I condemn the synopsis)

My goal for last week was to complete my long- and short-form synopses. These are the tantalizing tinctures containing all the major points, conflicts and characters of the story. In 2 pages. HAHA HHAHAHAHAHHA. But seriously, folks. Producing a synopsis, even a long one, is a mind-bendingly arduous process. It's so difficult that literary agents have trouble even discussing it.

But, it's valuable. I discovered the massive absence of conflict in a prior manuscript as I attempted to cobble together the synopsis. Point to synopsis.

So, I'm nearly done, just have to polish my one-pager, and I can send my query off to the remainder of my first wave of agents. So far, I've been pleasantly surprised at the responses, though I only have a few out. The stats, as of 4:00 PM AKST, are:

Queries Sent: 4
Full MS Requests: 1
Partial MS Requests: 1
Rejections: 0

1 comment:

  1. Do you get the Black Internet when you use different browsers?

    Sounds like something's hijacked your DNS server. (That's the thing that translates a web url into the numbers that match up to a specific server where a website lives...)

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