Plot Synopsis Project
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As many of you are probably painfully aware, outlines are the anti-book, as far as I'm concerned. They are dreadful, horrible, book-killing things, because you have to hit the plot points of a book, and make it all sound compelling and interesting. If you do this, however, you are bleeding energy from the actual book itself, at least if you're me, because even if it is many, many pages short of actual novel, you have already told the story, and the incentive to, you know, tell the story is severely lessened as a result.
( Selling Cast in Shadow -- a brief note. Well, it started out brief )
( It goes without saying that there are MASSIVE SPOILERS for Cast in Shadow behind this cut )
So, that's the outline. I'm not the only person that
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( Other authors who are also blogging about outlines or synopses that sold books )
ET: Cut out all the spaces between the links, because, well, not necessary and also to add:
Janni Simner (
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P. R. Frost/Irene Radford (
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both of whom also posted.