Weight of a word
Writing a novel synopsis is hard I found, harder than writing the novel. A novel is carried by the story, the characters, the world, and lots and lots of words to describe them. A synopsis just has the words, trying to make the story and characters and world shine as quickly as possible.
Each word carries so much more weight in the synopsis where it's one in a thousand, versus in the novel where it's one in one hundred thousand. That's not to say that individual words aren't important in a novel, because they are, but there's just a few places in a novel where individual words matter that much. All the words in between in a novel can get away with being okay as long as they don't distract from the story and characters and world. There are no in between words in a synopsis; every single one has to matter and has to be good because those words are the only chance your story and characters and world have.
No wonder it's so much harder than writing a novel.
Each word carries so much more weight in the synopsis where it's one in a thousand, versus in the novel where it's one in one hundred thousand. That's not to say that individual words aren't important in a novel, because they are, but there's just a few places in a novel where individual words matter that much. All the words in between in a novel can get away with being okay as long as they don't distract from the story and characters and world. There are no in between words in a synopsis; every single one has to matter and has to be good because those words are the only chance your story and characters and world have.
No wonder it's so much harder than writing a novel.