by Peggy Bechko
Okay writers, time to focus. Whether you write books or scripts or both, you’ve heard this before. You’re going to have to learn to condense. You’ll need to create book blurbs or tweet length synopsis or loglines, or whatever you label it in order to promote your work and sell it.
Don’t go and tell me you’re a novelist and you can’t write anything shorter. I said that once – a long, long time ago – then I learned how to do it.
What are the bare bones of the story you’re trying to tell? How are you going to put that across in just a few words for a ‘high concept’, or a sentence or two for a book blurb?