“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya kwanza watu wanavyoviona na kuvisoma. Watu wakivutiwa na jina la kitabu, au mwandishi; kitu cha pili watakachovutiwa kuangalia ni dibaji, kusudi wasome muhtasari wa kitabu kizima. Kwa hiyo dibaji inapaswa iandikwe kwa mantiki na kwa makini ileile iliyotumika katika kuchagua jina la kitabu. Lengo la jina la kitabu na dibaji ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma kitabu na kukifurahia.” BookCareCreativityAudienceBooksLogicWriterCreative WritingIntroductionBook TitleTitleEnticementSynopsisAudiencesEntice Author:Enock Maregesi
“Lengo la jina la kitabu ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma dibaji, na lengo la dibaji ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma salio la kitabu kizima.” AudienceBooksBook TitleTitleEnticementSynopsisEntice Author:Enock Maregesi
“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.” IfsWritingBookCharacterMovingPurposeBehindsReaderComfortablePagesUltimateSmellBlockNovelistsPlotOutlinesPhonyPlausibleSynopsis Author:Clive Cussler
“I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.” ChainsSynopsis Author:Tanith Lee
“... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.” WayGivingLittlesSaidBookArtistFoundForgetWorryWrittenTypeNotesComicTapeStaffComic BookCarbonRecordersSynopsis Author:Stan Lee
“I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.” IdeasStoriesHateI HateLoudExplorationProvidingSynopsis Author:Shane Carruth
“A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.” IfsMindMagicFrontsColdSynopsis Author:J. B. Priestley
“A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.” StoriesStupidAssGet OverSynopsis Author:Kieron Gillen
“I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.” WayWritingStillsIdeasStoriesRoomsConflictPagesDiscoveryFairsPlentySubmitPublishersAhead Of TimeSynopsis Author:Julie Klassen
“I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.” MenPlayStoriesShowsHeardNew YorkHe ManDirectorsTheaterCriticsSevenGuidesBrilliantCirclesFormerArtisticAwardsButtonsReportersStalkingTrue StoryAmerican LifeRoommateNprBest AmericanSynopsis Author:Adam Richman
“In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.” WorldShouldHas BeensEndsProblemCuttingMinesScriptsFinishedProducersFranceBehaveOfficialsChickensFragileCensorshipNo ProblemCensoredSynopsis Author:Gaspar Noe
“I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.” I CanThreeMonthsPagesEmailThree MonthsSynopsis Author:Emmanuelle Beart
“I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.” WritingFirstsLittlesNamesListsRoughChaptersSheerSynopsis Book:Conversations with Anthony Burgess Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
“Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.” WritingIdeasPlotConstructionSynopsis Author:Jo Nesbo
“I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.” KnowsWritingI CanBookEndsAsksFinalsPublishersSynopsis Author:Jackie Collins