synopsis

I just did a workshop put on by Jane Friedman, taught by Jessica Strawser on synopsis. In it, Jessica said that one of the reasons a lot of agents don't like prologues is because they’ve read the query and the synopsis, which prompts them to read the pages. Then when they read the opening, it's...

How to Write a One Page Synopsis How to Write a One Page Synopsis synopsis noun syn·op·sis \sə-ˈnäp-səs\ a short description of the most important information about something : a summary or outline For the first stage of the competition, we ask for one-page synopsis of your novel along with...