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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?
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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.
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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.
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