Well, for once the MET Office weren’t lying and we’ve had around 10 inches of snow so far. That’s 25cm. It’s still snowing now, and my snowman I made this morning is gradually becoming featureless as he sits on the covered table in my back garden. This has to be the worst snow I’ve ever seen, or at least can remember seeing. I couldn’t get to work this morning. It would have been impossible to even try with the mile walk through the snow to the train station. I doubt tomorrow will be any better, or even Friday at this rate. It’s terrible out there. Here’s a picture to prove it…
See, that’s my back garden. Lots of snow! The bird table in the background has an afro. It started snowing on me again when I was making my snowman on my table. He’s very fuzzy with new snow now!
I’ve been working hard this week writing synopses of varying lengths for Arcadian, which I can now reveal is really called Love Immortal. It’s hard going and not something I enjoy, but there isn’t much point in spending a year writing and honing a novel only to rush through the synopsis and shoot yourself in the foot when submitting to agents. You may as well take a decent amount of time out of your schedule to write something which really sells the book and makes it sound as exciting as it is. No one enjoys writing synopsis, and for early stage writers like myself it’s very difficult to do, but it’s worth making the effort. I’ve allowed the whole of January for synopsis writing. I have a rough one page, a rough three page and a rough five page synopsis right now. They all need work and I’m bound to do another version of them before I’m satisfied. They’ll need revising too before I eventually send them out to my selected agents in February.
It’s time to make tea and watch the snow again before I continue trying to hone my three page synopsis into something of a satisfactory first draft.
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