Hey guys, wanted to share this blog post with you. Fellow professionals have been talking about it on linkedin. Hope it stimulates and inspires! http://nicpenrakeandassociates.com/how-to-write-a-great-synopsis/
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Nic, I found that to be a very helpful post on writing a synopsis. It's so true, we tend to dash that off at the end of a long process, and it deserves, as you say, to be "sexy."
Insightful piece, Nic. The bane of almost every writer is the synopsis. A little different spin from your perspective, that may also prove helpful to screenwriters, is the following I wrote some years ago (accompanied by a coupla examples)... http://writersconference.com/wp-content/uploads/art-synopsis.html
Thanks Nic. This is sweet! Appreciate it for sure.
If you listen to those guys and you don't extrapolate. You made the sheep noise; baahed. [Being new is personal]...Even the hacks know this...It all begins with this; new, this one day, found. You live and let to go too quickly. You fade away. You, judged, you found, you left that; moment real, as if it should be. Tried untried and true.