Writing the synopsis

Wow, was going through my YouTube page and see that this video filmed five years  ago is one of my most watched videos. Goes to show there is a writing community out there interested in more about writing. I do still write, but barely fit it in between my two jobs, three if you count the literary journal I started and am terribly guilty of neglecting.

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(the cat kept jumping on the table causing a lot of jiggling, apologies - I was a novice)

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Video blog regarding query letter and synopsis

Here is another video blog. I am fairly new to this, hopefully my videos will continue to improve.

I give some reviews on books that are helpful with query letter and synopsis writing in this video blog post.



Well, it's always something isn't it.... my YouTube video was too large for the space allotted by the original blog page design. I changed backgrounds and now it almost fits, close enough.

A form rejection to my query ....

Woke up this morning and looked at my email and - tada! - there it was... yet another rejection letter. This time the rejection did not say "Dear Author." It didn't call me anything. There was no salutation at all. It did apologize, however, for being a form rejection. That leaves just one query letter out there without an answer. According to that agent's website, she only responds if she is interested in seeing more of your work ... so I must assume that I will likely never hear from her.

Time for another retooling of the query letter. I will also begin work on my synopsis today. I'll be using two books to help me do both of the above: Your Novel Proposal by Blythe Camenson and Marshall J. Cook and The Marshall Plan for Getting Your Novel Published by Evan Marshall. Though they give slightly differing advice, I'll try to pull out the best each has to offer. I also will consult a couple websites.

This 4th rejection got to me today - it created tremendous self doubt.

I know from my reading that many successful and/or famous authors have endured rejection and continued to soldier on. So, I went to google to search for some inspiration and came up with the following websites full of rejections - some of the rejections are laugh-out-loud funny

Famous Rejections by Susie Smith
James Patterson: first novel rejected 26 times by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Writers and rejection: don't give up by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

one issue, then another...

I revised my query letter and, I must admit, the story sounds far more interesting. I sent the query out via email to another agent and am bracing myself for another rejection.

According to one source I read, if you continually query one agent at a time, it could take years before someone requests your manuscript. So, I will seek out agents who don't mind simultaneous submissions. For those who do mind, I will query them separately after rejections and before querying other agents.

One of the agencies that I am interested in querying requires a synopsis for the query package. Gulp ... a synopsis ...

.... more to come