The Spoken Synopsis

Novelists invariably have to write a synopsis. It is true that many great writers probably never wrote one, but I can assure that agents and publishers always want to see one. Many who have chosen the world of the pen as their journey, sometimes find it difficult to understand what a synopsis is, why it is the way it is, why it's even needed. Other writers wouldn't write home without it. You could say that it's the literary equivalent of a business plan. And it is true that the map is not the territory, the synopsis is not the book. Here are...