Hi all, I have a question: how do you do a 150 word synopsis?
I'm entering a competition and you have to submit a 150 word synopsis along with the first page of your novel.
Would this tiny synopsis be like the blurb of a book (on the back cover)?
And advice or info would be very appreciated. :)
If they ask for a synopsis then they still want to know how the book ends (the blurb, in contrast, doesn't contain any spoilers).
The best advice I've read is to write a really short synopsis (one 25-word sentence), and then build up. The sentence you build from is the core of your book. It's very, very difficult to fit a whole story in one sentence (and it might take days just to get that right) but once you've succeeded, the rest is easy in comparison.
Try looking for a book by Nicola Morgan (it's called something like Write a Great Synopsis).