Fun with synopses

This has been the sort of day where I wish I’d just stayed in bed, curled up under the covers.  Between the sudden death of my cell phone and a mysterious water feature that started cascading down from my bathroom ceiling, it’s been an eventful day to say the least.

Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to work on my synopsis for A Theft of Bones after I’d ordered my new phone and the landlord had been by to stop the ceiling fountain.  Let me tell you, you haven’t had fun until you’ve condensed a 400 page manuscript into five double-spaced pages.  It seems like it should be a piece of cake.  But it’s not.

At least I have something to show for my pain and suffering.  After hours and hours of fussing, I have a decent five page summary of the novel.  I might send it to some of the Beta Readers to get their opinion.  I might even send it to one or two people who haven’t read the novel  just to see if it can hold up even without any prior knowledge of the story.

I’m not quite done synopsizing.  Some agents want a mini-synopsis of no more than two pages.  Now, the real fun begins!