Phew! What a pain in my tookus!
For the past couple days I have been walking through, The Rings of Time… Chapter by Chapter. Only mildly distracted by twitter (hahaha) I finally finished last night around 10:00pm. What a relief.
My purpose behind running through each chapter (all 37 of them) was simple… I needed to extract a detailed chapter outline so I could work on my synopsis. I have been told a “long synopsis” is 5-6 pages. Ahem, I have 17 outlined. Now granted these pages are just one or two words per line, with the action/what’s going on. But still… 17 pages.
I noticed at the end of my efforts… the latter chapters got far more words then the first ones. Which I suppose is good. But now comes the difficult part… well it’s really in the eye of the beholder… I have to write the synopsis.
Which now means I get to do some research and find out exactly what agents/publishers want in a synopsis. I know they want a detailed character list of the mains, but do they really want everything that happens in the story…? I really don’t know, because this is my first try.
Yes, yes… I am still working on my query for Rings of Time but I am still not happy with it. I want to go short, sweet and dynamic… but my story is a complexed one full of action, which means I think I am trying to turn water into wine! And I don’t know about you, but only one guy has ever attempted that and succeeded and I am NOT HIM.
So, if you need me. I will be here, googling my day away to find a good agent/publisher synopsis submission to base my first efforts off of.
On the positive side of things (not that this was negative in any way, just a lot of work), I received another beta read back and they said nothing but good things about the novel. I asked the reader if they could critique it at all and their response, “I don’t have anything to add or suggest! I just want the second book.” To which I responded, “It’s on the editors desk, would you like his email?”
Hehehe…
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