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|  tchernabyelo Acolyte
        Date Joined Oct 2006 Total Posts : 474 | Posted 3/25/2008 6:08 AM (GMT -5) |   | There are a bunch of people currently on livejournal talking about synopses, and even posting up the synopses for their published novels. It's great to be able to compare the two.
Josh Palmatier started it off, I believe, so check out his LJ first (jpsorrow.livejournal.com) Brian Dolton
Yi Qin stories:
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20
"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex #25 "Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs & Starships #2
"What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"What The Heart Bears" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"Above The Clouds" - Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel (forthcoming)
Other Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:
"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force (forthcoming)
"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals Feb-Apr 08
Stories in other settings:
"The Unicorn Hunter" - OG's Speculative Fiction #8
"Call Centre" - Necrotic Tissue #1
"When Winter Came" - ASIM #32
"Cold Fire" - Flashing Swords #9
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 |  crystalwizard Forum Moderator

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 |  JeanLauzier Neophyte

       Date Joined Feb 2008 Total Posts : 55 | Posted 3/14/2008 11:13 PM (GMT -5) |   | I just finished a synopsis for a mystery novel.
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   |  darkbow Rabbit lord

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 |  crystalwizard Forum Moderator

       Date Joined Nov 2006 Total Posts : 5194 | Posted 3/12/2008 5:26 PM (GMT -5) |   | >Writing the cursing synopsis!
for heavens' sake, you do that every time you tell anyone what it's about. What you're probably trying to do is turn out a finished, polished synopsis on the first draft.
You wouldn't do that with your story though. You know you're doing to edit your story.
So why do that with your synopsis.
Start typing and just type out what the thing is about. Ramble. mention all the details and don't put them in any particular order:
The story starts when a big wind drops a tree on this guys house. Oh yeah, and before the big wind, there was a dog running down the alley, howling. Anyway, after the wind, and the tree on the guys house, the neighbors found a cow floating in their pool. While the wind was blowing a car horn was being heard. That happened before the neighbors found the cow in the pool. So the neighbors called the cops and they found that the guy had vanished. In fact, the house didn't look lived in at all. The one with the tree on it. So the cops got suspicious and discovered that the house was owned by a mysterious corporation in Diluth.
Get it all down like that, then go back and edit. rearrange sentences, cut out details that aren't necessary to tell, revise. and do it again.
Just like you would anything else you write. Never meddle in the affairs of a wizard unless you are soggy and hard to light!
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