synopsis – Gwen Hernandez

Snow and synopses

January 27, 2011Gwen HernandezWriting Life

I have snow and synopses on the brain today. The DC area got about eight inches yesterday afternoon/evening. My kids got a snow day, and my husband had a five-hour commute home that culminated with his bus getting stuck at the offramp and him walking about two-and-a-half miles home because his car was socked in

Abridged angst

I’ve been working on a contest entry all afternoon, taking into account my own edits, as well as the comments of my CP. That was the easy part. It was the @#%$! synopsis that got me hung up. Boiling my living, breathing story down to a dry blow-by-blow of the high points is mind-numbing and