Comments on: Lucy Roberts’s Winning Synopsis

By: Annjane

Annjane — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:26:15 +0000

Lucy. Great Synopsis.
I plan to copy, print it out and hightlight the
important facets of your Modern Heat synopsis
and First Chapter.

By: lidia

lidia — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:35:28 +0000

Lucy,

Loved the synopsis. Can’t wait to read the entire story!

By: Susanna

Susanna — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:02:14 +0000

Lucy,

Thanks for your remark and yes I did read about your call regarding the contest. What I can’t wait to read is “THE CALL” on HMB’s offer of a contract.

XO XO XO and like I said before, you can count on my advance purchase of your publication,

Karen in California

By: lucy

lucy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:13:26 +0000

(Karen and Jackie, so sorry for getting your names wrong in my comment above – I really shouldn’t post before having my first coffee of the day!)

By: lucy

lucy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:22:47 +0000

Oops, don’t know what that last line is doing there!

Lucy

By: lucy

lucy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:22:07 +0000

Hello everyone!

The synopsis – ugh! Horrible things. Thank you for your lovely comments though.

Barbara – initially I used names of friends/people I know, never imagining I’d get anywhere in the contest, so I’ve changed some. Luke and Emily remain though!

Susanna – did a post on ‘The Call’ a couple of weeks ago, I think (must be here somewhere!)

Jax – probably too much internal conflict . I wrote the last couple of paragraphs without having a clue if that was going to happen, and now it sounds a bit convoluted!

Rach & Felicity – thank you! Can’t believe it’s nearly 2009 already.

Lynn – I usually write the synopsis after the novel which is why this one was so hard to do! The synopsis follows the novel up to about half way, then I guess the novel is vaguely going in the direction of the synopsis, but will probably deviate. Am quite interested to see by how much!

I normally write the synopsis finishing the novel so in this case

By: Lynn Raye Harris

Lynn Raye Harris — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:45:47 +0000

Great job, Lucy! I was pretty proud of how my synopsis turned out — but the finished book is quite, quite different. Do you tend to follow your synopses closely? Or do you deviate?

By: Felicity

Felicity — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:20:24 +0000

Great synopsis. I cant wait to read your chapter…and then your book. Congratulations, Felicity

By: blairwitch

blairwitch — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:13:43 +0000

Really enjoyed your synopsis Lucy – and that’s saying something, hey? Synopsis are tough. Can’t WAIT to read your chap and as Karen says… the rest of the book!

Congrats again and enjoy your year – think it’ll be a fab one!

Rach!

By: jax

jax — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:15:04 +0000

Hey Lucy, what a great synopsis! Plenty of internal conflict there methinks…

Can’t wait to read the chapter.

Jackie