Writing a book is hard work. You’ve got to have an idea, a plot, some characters, story arcs and so on. You need to do research, finding out the nitty gritty details. You need to have determination in order to cross the finishing line, sticking it out to get all those words onto a page, or atleast into a word processor.
Job done?
Nope.
It takes almost as long to do all the proof-reading. Infact, it probably does take as long, specially if you tend to dump ideas in a hurry and out of sequence like me. You then go back to start chopping and changing things and find a whole bunch of corrections you need to make.
Still. I think I’ve done that. Job done?
Nope.
Now I’m trying to write a covering letter and a synopsis. Covering letter is pretty straight forward, though I had to condense my book into a couple of sentences, which was a bit of a toughy. Here it is though… what do you think?
A romance, set against the background of Kent village in turmoil over new building development. The book attempts to deal with themes of depression, loss of faith, disillusionment and the conflict between religion and science in an accessible, moving and ultimately positive manner.
Probably still too long… sigh!
The synopsis is much, much harder though! I’ve got to write a, max 500 word, summary of my book. This I’m finding tough. Trying to pack some of what I consider to be the interesting parts of my book into this sort of size is really very difficult indeed. I’m having to be brutal. (My initial summary was looking to be about 500 words per chapter, and I’ve got 24 to do!)
Once I’ve got something, I’ll post it up and you can tell me what you think of it!
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