T-56 and counting

[truepenny]

Today: 1,017 words

YES. I SUCK.

In my defense, I also did the page-proofs for my story in So Fey and wrote 186 words of the world's crappiest synopsis.* Of Summerdown. Yes, the book I haven't finished yet. I blame the synopsis for leeching out my will to live like a big ol' psychic vampire.

I hate writing synopses. I swear, I know of no faster way to make myself feel stupider than to try to explain in plain English what one of my books is about. It gives me metaphysical hives.** (You'll observe this phenomenon if you ever ask me in person, So, what's your book about? You can practically hear the IQ points hitting the floor.)

Hence, today was all about the angst and woe and joyless procrastination and stuckness. Don't forget the stuckness. Tomorrow, I will be smarter. Tomorrow, I will not try to work on the synopsis until after I've made my quota. Plus the 600 words I didn't write today.

Excelsior.


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*My publisher needs it. For publisher-things.

**Yes, I said metaphysical.

Comments

Synopsis=stupid

[(Anonymous)]

Don' fret so much hun'chil' (yes, I've been writing southern gothic agian; sue me). The fact is all synopsis/synopses/synopsises sound stupid. Because if you could tell the story in two sentences then you wouldn't have needed to write a book to tell it. An old (very old) editor of mine passed this advice along and it's gotten me over some of the ugly stuff. For your amusement, I present other great books and their synopisesses (as taken from a literary book and movie guide here by my desk):

How The West Was Won--Families go west

Taxi Driver--Cabbie unleashes rage

The High and The Mighty--Co-pilot tries to land crippled plane

Gone With the Wind--Southern Belle faces hardships during war

and one of my all-time favorites: Of Mice and Men--Two friends have adventured during dustbowl

Now ask yourself, does yours sound any dumber than that? Ah, if only the hands that feed us would figure out to just let us work without the interruptions. Make the copy-editors do the synops.

MKeaton

Re: Synopsis=stupid

[phoenix-alpha.livejournal.com]

Hmn... I like that.
Maybe... thanks.