November 5, 2005 | Uncategorized
I had all sorts of writing plans for last night but instead I was so tired I watched a movie with my husband and went to bed by 10. Wild Friday night.
I’m sending a partial of Connected to my agent this week, I hope. Which is a little annoying because by the time I hear back from her about it, I’ll need to have started Rush, and every thought of Connected will have gone out of my head.
Oh well. Anyway, the point of this whole thing is that I’m writing a synopsis for Connected when I’ve only written three chapters. I’m sort of a halfway point between someone who obsessively plots and someone who recklessly writes without a plan. I usually know the shape of the book, and what sort of events need to happen, and I usually know the message of the book or how it ends (well with a romance how it ends is generally a given). But I don’t always know what exactly will happen. Sometimes I find out chapter by chapter–usually at the beginning–and then towards the end, the whole thread of the story becomes clearer. I often find I’ve planted plot twists for the end near the beginning without even knowing about it.
This makes it difficult to write a synopsis with any preciseness. So far my notes for the end of this book are: Carla finds Lucy, and therefore Sabrina. Redemption for C, has to face fears. A climactic event, related to UL? Tom makes contact? Yes? No? Sabrina and Joe’s marriage finally a real one.
Yeah. Like that’s gonna fly as the end of a synopsis? I don’t think so.
I’m thinking of writing, “And then I’ll give it a good ending. Trust me.”
Any hints on what I should write to conceal my ignorance?
