The dreaded synopsis

Today I'm starting a one month course on how to write a synopsis. Well, it's easy to write one, because I must have five or six for World of Mirrors and several for Promiscuous Mode. The problem is, they didn't do anything to aid in selling the books. Miss Snark said that my "hook" was full of blather, and I suspect that my synopses are, too.

I'm going to use Festival Madness, because that is a book which can be fixed, being in first draft mode. Or should I do Promiscuous Mode, or tackle World of Mirrors yet one more time? Decisions. Decisions. I'm actively trying to sell Mirrors and Mode, so by rights they should have wonderful synopses. Presumably if I learn to do one really well, I can do the others. So Mode or Mirrors? The thing about Mirrors is, it's currently in my head right now, since I did the chapter by chapter and have been reading it to my writing group.

It ain't easy to keep 300,000 words in your head, believe me. Not when there's other stuff there too. Guess I'll do Mirrors. What the hell?

Saturday we are leaving for southern climes, the Sea Islands of Georgia where I've never been. Hasn't been exactly balmy down there, but then hasn't been exactly balmy anywhere this week. A few high-fifties low-sixties days will be just fine. That's what we had in Florida last year. Sweat shirts and light jackets will be a wonderful novelty in early Feb. Plan to see some sights in Charleston and D.C. along the way. Maybe eat some good stuff, but not too much.

My web site project is bogged down between HTML, Word and N-Vu. Now I am wishing I had stuck with HTML which I can control, at least, but N-VU might be o.k. when I know what I'm doing. Learning new stuff is fun.

Repeat after me. Learning new stuff is fun.

Tomorrow's post will be the last until February 12th. Zowie!

Bon Voyage,

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