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10 min read
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19th January 2021
William Ryan provides tips on how to set yourself on the path to writing a good synopsis (with a little help from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
Synopsis
A short document that provides an editor/agent with an overview of your narrative, from beginning to end. The synopsis comes with a reputation for being difficult to produce, with writers left frustrated by the task of distilling their manuscript into just a single side of A4. We hope this collection of articles offer help and guidance you find useful.
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6 min read
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25th January 2021
'What type of book have I written?' isn't a question as uncommon among writers as one might expect, particularly as the process of submitting to...
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4 min read
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25th January 2021
In this extract from Writers' & Artists' Guide To How To Hook an Agent, James Rennoldson points out some things writers should consider in...
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5 min read
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14th October 2020
At primary school, you’re taught that a story has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. What they don’t tell you is that the end can come at...
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6 min read
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14th October 2020
Gone Girl, How to be Both, Instructions for a Heatwave: everyone’s at it - using dual or multiple narratives to interweave two or more stories...
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4 min read
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13th October 2020
Advice on writing a synopsis for both fiction and non-fiction manuscripts.