Writing techniques - my experience of layering and dialogue

Over the last few days I've been working on an outline for my serial story. If you read a lot of author blogs you'll often find authors bemoaning the synopsis writing. Anything where we have to condense our opus/imagined opus into a few action-packed and (hopefully) winning lines can be daunting, understandably so! Yes, there was gnashing of teeth.

I got the serial story oultine done but it was with some trepidation that I sent it off -- and great delight that I had it approved! Yay!! So, it's...