Once upon a time, I did some posts about synopses. I said there were three basic types I'd encountered: the
one-line, the
one-paragraph, and the one-page. I proceeded to blog about the first two, and even did a
postscript, but then I shamelessly left you hanging on the third one.
As I may have confessed in those earlier posts, I'm not a big fan of the one-page (sometimes it's two-page) synopsis. I can see the value in a one-liner: writers get asked all the time, in casual conversation, "So ...
Published on November 19, 2009 01:01