Writing Worksheet Wednesday: Synopsis Writing

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Writing Worksheet – Writing a Synopsis (PDF)

Writing a synopsis can be a great way to get really clear about the story you’re telling. In the One Page Novel Course, I suggest it as the next step after brainstorming, but these worksheets can help even if you’ve already finished your book and are getting ready to publish it.

You might like to use these in conjunction with the Suspense Writing Worksheet. Enjoy!

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Are you planning to do NaNoWriMo this year? I'm t

Are you planning to do NaNoWriMo this year? I'm thinking of being a NaNo rebel and working on my WIP, 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗. So much has changed since I posted this Preptober Schedule last year... but my novel has remained my mainstay. 🖤 ✨ Also, in case you missed my email last week, my magical WORLDBUILDING COURSE is opening next month! Watch for more announcements, if you're interested. 😊 .
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"Writing has never been work to me, even when it c

"Writing has never been work to me, even when it comes out badly, I like the action, the sound of the typer, a way to go. And even when I write badly and it comes back, I look at it and I don't mind too much: I've got a chance to improve. There's the matter of staying with it, tapping away, it seems to keep mending together; the mistakes and the good luck until it sounds and reads and feels better. Not that it's important or not important. Just tap tap tap. Of course, in the typing it's good if something comes along that is interesting to say, and such things don't arrive every day. You've got to wait a couple of days sometimes. And you've got to know that the big boys who have been doing it for centuries really haven't done it too well, even though you have copied from them, couldn't have started at any beginning without them, there's still nothing to owe. So, tap tap tap..." - Charles Bukowski to John Martin (January 3, 1982) I bought this book for a writer friend, but couldn't resist flipping through it myself. It's a collection of letters that Bukowski sent out over the years, mostly in response to submissions & rejections & (heaven help the recipient) requests for bios to accompany his publications. I don't know that it will teach you much about writing, but it's definitely a fun insight if you like Bukowski. 📚 Do you have any writing books you'd recommend? .
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I have begun making lists, every day, in a little

I have begun making lists, every day, in a little notebook, of the things that please me, that I love & appreciate. I stamp the date at the top, and add to my list every time I sit down at my desk. Here is a random sampling:
- Thunderstorms
- Fast deliveries
- Black - the colour & the character (in my novel)
- My students 🖤
- My family
- Mum's cooking
- Colombian coffee with crushed cardamom
- Penguin Classics
- @lilithatious
- Finding a stash of pink blotting paper & thin typewriter paper in a box of my grandfather's stuff in the basement 📦
- My elliptical machine
- Stopping to listen to the nightingales
- My skill at categorising & deciding what to keep & what to give away
- Goodnotes
- F O C U S & F L O W
- Scholasticism
- Typing on this Magic Keyboard 🙌🏻
- Håkan Hellström
- The lovely things that are still winging their way towards me
- My Zettelkasten
- The accumulation of words 📚
- The fact that there are services that allow me to read & listen to books INSTANTLY 🤯
- Haribo snakes
- Dark mode
- The feeling of progress 📖 Try it for yourself today & let me know what you think! 😊 .
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prosopopoeia: "A rhetorical device by which an ima

prosopopoeia: "A rhetorical device by which an imaginary, absent, or dead person is represented as speaking or acting; the introduction of a pretended speaker; an instance of this." (OED)⁠
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"The Greek word prósopon means a face or mask and from those core meanings derive subsidiary meanings of a dramatic part or character, a character in a philosophical dialogue or other book, even the character of an author." - Gavin Alexander⁠
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Words, words, words.⁠ ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ ⁠ #sh

Words, words, words.⁠
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