Ever had that feeling that you know too much about the book you’ve written to condense it down to a page and a half for an agent or publisher’s edification? Yeah, me too. I mean, what is it with these guys? They’re supposed to be in the business. Do they really read that slowly? DoContinue reading “The Problem With The Synopsis”
Tag Archives: Fiction
What Decides Literary Genre?
This week, I heard someone reading a poem that sounded to me exactly like prose. Now, I’ve always been bad at understanding or passing any meaningful comment on poetry (it’s my blind spot) but the more I listened the more I realised I was responding to the poem exactly as if it were a shortContinue reading “What Decides Literary Genre?”
Kindles- Good or Bad?
I’ve been thinking about the publishing revolution all over again. Is it good that suddenly there’s a huge flood of more information available? Is it even information when so much of it is freely available with no sort of editorial control? As Carraway once said (In Forged Truth), “The growth in available information produces theContinue reading “Kindles- Good or Bad?”
