How I Came to Not Hate Synopses

Synopsesesssssss, we hates them! Curse them and crush them!



But then I had to write two in a row, with no time to procrastinate. I still don't like them, but I no longer fear them. Why?



Because I found an algorithm.



STEP #1: Plan the story. Or write it, in the case where you're writing a synopsis after the draft. Either way works, but writing the synopsis before the draft makes it easier to condense things, I think.



STEP #2: Write the Crappy Synopsis. Just write everything that happens,...