#writingsynopses

Monday’s Musing on synopses and Skeletons…

This one comes courtesy by way of Kristen Lamb’s blog and her interesting article at warrior writers.org. As Kristen tells us,

“The synopsis strips away our pretty prose and all our verbal glitter and it lays our story bare…The synopsis is the skeleton of our story…

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The same holds true with a story skeleton. If the narrative orbital sockets are…