I remember back to when I prepared my query letters for the first time and got ready to email some literary agents, when suddenly something made me hit the breaks...oh wait, they are all asking for a synopsis along with the query. And henceforth, I had to go back, do some research and recall what a synopsis is. So here's what I found out;
In simple words it's just a (good) summary of your story. It's basically something brief but interesting. I have a better way to put it, if you are having a conversation with a friend and you mention writing a book and they ask oh what it about... The summarized, interesting, to the point, spoiler free summary you would tell them in like five minutes is probably the same thing as a synopsis. In fact, that's exactly what a synopsis is, something you'd tell your literary agent briefly and interestingly in a short time to gain their attention. So if you get the general idea, I'll move on to the main points about writing a synopsis,
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