Which do you find more difficult to write---an outline or a synopsis? I finally had the synopsis thing down. I can do one in only a half page. Not very detailed, but I have gotten the knack for it---so now I have had to do an outline.
Let me tell you---outlines are as flat as a penny run over by a train! I wonder why an agent would even request a chapter by chapter outline. It gives the facts, but the flavor of the book is certianly lost
So what do you think? Synopsis or outline? Which is worse?
Shawn
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Usually, I think of an outline as the plan for the story that I use at the beginning.
The synopsis is what you come up with after it's ready to be submitted and you want to give someone a capsule version of the story.
(Synopses can be in chapter-by-chapter format, but they don't have to be.)
If the agent has specifically asked for chapter-by-chapter, you could always send along stuff with it, like character sketches, to help flesh out the dry plot outline.
Posted by srhowen (Member # 462) on :
Well, its done---synopsis in outline form---writing it wasn't that bad--but it seems so flat as compared to the actual writing. I am glad that there are sample chapters going with it.
Sheesh--well if someone else asks for an outline form synop---I have one now.