3 Synopsis Samples

If you’re anything like me, you learn through example. So here are links to three synopsis samples/examples. Read them and take notes on how they incorporate the storyline, characters, and other important details. Pay close attention to how they transition from scene to scene and wrap up the ending of the story as well.

Carolyn Jewel [...]

3 Reasons Your Synopsis Stinks

Is your synopsis garnering a lack luster response? Not placing in contests? Picked on by your critique partners? Yeah, we’ve all been there. Here are three common problems that might be holding your synopsis back. So read on and tackle your problem synopsis.
1. Your synopsis doesn’t include the ending.
By definition, this is what a synopsis [...]

Quick Tip: Write Daily

Even if you’re like me and you tend to write in giant bursts (my top wordcount is 6500 words in a single evening) it’s important to write something each day. It’s important to be thinking about your writing each day. Even if you’re polishing a proposal or making revisions for an agent, write a paragraph [...]

One-sentence synopsis is the secret of a compelling query by Jan Bear

Many writers dread writing a synopsis as they prepare to query editors and agents about their completed novel. But this vitally important bit of writing doesn’t have to be hard, and it can help the writing process as well as the marketing.
The best time to write your synopsis is before you start writing your novel [...]

Saturday Screening: Synopsis by Bob Mayer

Planning Your Novel Synopsis

Author: Mervyn Love
Starting a novel for the first time can be daunting. You’re confident that your story is a cracker, but you’re not entirely sure how the storyline goes, in detail, at this stage. What you need is a simple way of sorting out how the whole thing progresses from start to finish. So read [...]

The Synopsis — An Editors View

Author: Laurie Sanders
Imagine for a moment that you have just been hired as an acquisitions editor a small publishing company that publishes romance. Your task is to find a romantic suspense novel to fill a gaping hole in the publisher’s schedule. You are excited, thinking you have just landed your dream job. After all, you’ll [...]

Easy to Follow Steps to Write a Successful Synopsis For Your Unpublished Manuscript By Samantha Pearce

Congratulations! The mere fact that you are reading this article suggests that you have finished writing the manuscript for your fiction, non-fiction, children’s book or short story. Or that you have almost finished writing it. Or, maybe that you are thinking about writing it1 Regardless, you deserve to be congratulated! Entering into the literary world [...]

Two-page Synopsis Example

Please remeber that this work is copyrighted by the author and she has put a lot of hard work into it. It’s listed here for example purposes only.
An Honest Day’s Work
by Dale Ketcham
Drew Mannaker is a commercial real estate shark with questionable scruples. For years he’s been after land between two larger parcels he’d managed [...]