This illustration my Cecilia Clark gives us a glimpse of what awaits us after this long cold winter. Cecilia is a budding writer and illustrator from Australia. Her writing and illustrating has been published in anthologies. She is a member of SCBWI Australia and New Zealand(Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FWA) and Romance Writer’s Australia(RWA). http://ceciliaaclark.blogspot.com.au
Synopsis Checklist:
1. Is your synopsis between one and three pages? Double spaced if more than one page?
2. Does the opening paragraph have a hook to keep the editor or agent reading?
3. Did you use capital letters the first time you introduced a character?
4. Did you show your characters goal, motivation, conflict, and growth?
Your synopsis should give a clear idea as to what your book is about, what characters we will care about (or dislike), what is at stake for your heroes, what they stand to lose, and how it all turns out.
5. Have you hit on the major scenes, the major plot points of your book, and include the ending?
6. How you gotten to the who, what, where, when and why in your synopsis?
7. Do you keep the interest level up throughout the synopsis?
8. Is there good flow between paragraphs.
9. Have you avoided all grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes?
10. Do you think you captured the flavor of your manuscript?
See yesterday’s post for synopsis details.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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