Gracious.

Jul. 21st, 2006 10:48 am
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (Default)
[personal profile] truepenny
There are over 500 of you.

::waves to everybody::

Since I have to write a synopsis of The Mirador today, and since synopsis-writing is an activity which I both hate and am incredibly bad at, I'm going to issue an open invitation:

Tell me something about yourself.

It's an invitation, obviously--nothing even as strong as a request--so if you don't want to, no harm, no foul. But if you'd like to (and this applies as much to the people I know as the people I don't) ... tell me something. Make it as long or as short, as serious or as goofy as you want. If you are a reader who doesn't have a LiveJournal account, that's totally cool, too--just please remember to sign your comment.

Date: 2006-07-21 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com
heh. So here's a comment guaranteed to get me lynched.

I actually *like* writing synopses.

I like taking the giant amorphous pile of goo, flinging it at the wheel, and turning on the motor, muttering, "Let's see if we can make a pot out of this, shall we?" If you screw it up, just mush it back to the component goo and try again. Once you've gotten it looking like a solid, well-proportioned pot, then you can invest the time and energy to detail, decorate and fire it. But first you need the goo-to-pot conversion step.

Writing a synopsis for a completed book, on the other hand ... well, it's marginally better than ripping out a nail, but only because you recover from it faster.

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