I have sent out a few queries to literary agents and received some requests back to send the whole manuscript.  This is excellent and in a matter of minutes I can have my manuscript in their hands.  But, one agent asked for 5 chapters and a detailed synopsis that included the ending.

This sounds simple right?

Good god.  Writing this synopsis is so hard.  You want to retain your voice and hit all the important plot points and highlight some of the quirkiness of my novel.  But the idea of a synopsis seems to be against what we were told in creative writing 101 which is: show don’t tell.  How do you do that in a couple of pages?  In some ways writing the synopsis is harder than writing most of the book.

I will do it.  I am doing it.  I’ve given myself a deadline of Friday night so I can go visit my girlfriend in Brooklyn without it hanging over my head.  sigh.