Frickin' Synopsis
Tedium thou art mine foe.

Did you know that the story synopsis you would prepare for, say, a screenplay and that you'd send to, say, a literary agent are totally different beasts?

Now you do. I admit, I was dumb for not looking this up earlier but when I was putting my agent package together I was happy thinking that having tackled the query letter (it's catchy AND informative!) and triple-checking my first fifty pages for submission I was done with the brunt of the work. After all, didn't the query letter kind of serve as a synopsis? Ha ha ha! Maybe in the magical land of film submission, where shorter is better. But in the literary world, a synopsis is actually a full synopsis and, get this, 1 page equals 25 pages of your novel (but is that your intended actual novel length, or manuscript length? I haven't figured that out yet). The long and short of it is that I need to read my book - I can recite it by heart, but not by chapter breaks - again and break each chapter into bullet points and then write essentially one paragraph per chapter (wait a second - does that even make sense if a page equals twenty-five pages which is approximately two chapters?) in the third-person present tense that still shows off your unique and special writing style. Which is my least favorite tense, by the way. I'm up to chapter sixteen, in bullet points at least, but I got distracted by MySpace - not MySpace itself, but making my MySpace page all pretty so I can win the unspoken challenge to have the best MySpace page EVER! (Ignoring the fact that I only have ten MySpace friends). Alas, there's always tomorrow for more tedium.