the dream – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:25:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg the dream – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 The Dream https://shepline.com/2009/02/19/the-dream/ https://shepline.com/2009/02/19/the-dream/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:25:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/the-dream/ So I’ve finished the novel. I’ve revised the 100,000 words, and I’m happy with the story. I also think that I might have a title in The End of All Worlds which is better than Blood & Fire. So what’s the problem?

The problem is the synopsis. I’ve been working through the outline of the story, putting down who x is and what y does and suddenly what holds together in the novel seems to fall apart in the synopsis. But how do I get anyone to read the thing if I can’t get them past the synopsis (and if I can’t get past the synopsis then they aren’t!). Help! Anyone…?

And then I saw this report of another young, local author making good with a book prize and I’m all jealous. Why am I jealous? I don’t know her! It turns out that she works in Oxford University Press too, of course…

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