Over the last ten days, I've been pulling my hair out about this DEMON synopsis. I didn't really start writing it until two days ago, but I powered through it on Monday and Tuesday.
I have to admit that my method is a little off-beat. On Monday, I'd jot down something and then play Cafe World for awhile, so forth and so on. And on Tuesday, my kidlet and I went to Big Splash with friends and then I came home and powered through the rest of it.
Is it dreck?
Probably. But the dreck is written down and I can work with something written down. So, I'll give it one more read-thru to see if I hit the key points and I'll send it off to two of my trusted peeps. One is a multi-pubbed author who mentored me from the beginning, and the other is a good writer friend, my go-to gal who lets talk out my writing problems (okay--she's like a good shrink. She makes me WORK for my answers). I trust them implicitly.
I have until August 15 to tweak my first 45 pages of manuscript and perfect this synopsis to enter a contest. Is this contest the end all be all of my life? No, but it's my goal, my personal deadline that I intend to keep . . . with a little help from my friends.
Write on!
I need those goals to get moving sometimes too. Good for you!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you set goals for yourself--and keep them! Hope you knock 'em out of the park with this one, Margaret.
ReplyDeleteBTW: You may have hit on a whole new way to write synopses. If it works, you can come teach RWI all about it. ;)
Thank, Edie! Good luck with your Cattitude goal!
ReplyDeleteHahaha! You are so funny, Suse! If pulling a synopsis out of my A$$ works--well, goodie for me, but I don't think it would make a decent presentation.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, Margaret. We've had a few synopsis programs, but never one that involved pulling it from someone's a$$. It would definitely be different.
ReplyDeleteAND Lucky you, Marilyn! you will be the first to read the dreck! :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to it!
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