“What’s your story about?” It’s probably the most terrifying question any writer faces. It doesn’t get any less terrifying when you start to learn the ropes about log-lines and high-concept pitches, about plot synopses and back-cover blurbs. If anything, knowing makes the question even harder to answer. What do they want to hear? The pithy hipster version, e.g. “I’m writing about a cult of telepathic Marxists who decide to disrupt the American system of credit,” or the high-concept version, “Fight-club but with superpowers,” or do they actually want to know what happens?
The 8-year-old's synopsis
The 8-year-old's synopsis
The 8-year-old's synopsis
“What’s your story about?” It’s probably the most terrifying question any writer faces. It doesn’t get any less terrifying when you start to learn the ropes about log-lines and high-concept pitches, about plot synopses and back-cover blurbs. If anything, knowing makes the question even harder to answer. What do they want to hear? The pithy hipster version, e.g. “I’m writing about a cult of telepathic Marxists who decide to disrupt the American system of credit,” or the high-concept version, “Fight-club but with superpowers,” or do they actually want to know what happens?