{"id":7428,"date":"2017-08-01T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T16:18:19","slug":"the-novel-is-born-the-synopsis-doneish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2017\/08\/the-novel-is-born-the-synopsis-doneish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Novel – is born – the synopsis done(ish)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So after my public declaration of determination to write this long awaited novel I can report the\u00a0 book is coming on. No really it is. No bullshit. I had the whole story in my head and bit by bit I have eked and squeezed it out into a synopsis. A beginning, middle and an end. Of course each time I read it I change it a little –\u00a0 but all in all the idea has emerged from the head to the laptop. A major step.<\/p>\n

I have made a decision to stop rereading OR \u00a0I will never move on with the next step\u2026<\/p>\n

There are other things going on this week which inevitably encourage distraction and prevarication.<\/p>\n

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Like\u2026..We are moving house on Friday.<\/p>\n

Like\u2026..David is opening a new bistro\/cafe on Friday.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Just small things like that\u2026of course the old me would have used these as excuses to do nothing on the book front, \u00a0but the new me, the swotty Fiona Bruce type me, is pushing on.<\/p>\n

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This is the point where I have fallen foul of my plan in the past. I am honestly confused with how the hell to get the idea out of my head and onto paper in any coherent form so the new me (FB see photo above) decided as a first step to download an audio book on Audible called Write Your Novel by Maggie James<\/a> which I listened to driving to and from Aberdeen to visit my Mum. Oh yes add that to the weeks goings on….<\/p>\n

\"\"Anyway it was a good listen and the 2 hours from Aberdeen to Edinburgh and back were perfect to take it in.<\/p>\n

It turns out listening to an audio book really makes a journey go quickly -not withstanding the number of times you have to pull over to write down things \u00a0you really want to remember. By the time I arrived in Aberdeen I had a confetti of Post Its, most nigh on impossible to decipher once peeled off the dashboard.<\/p>\n

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Still there is some great advice.<\/p>\n

First thing is first- find the best place to write.<\/p>\n

Every place I have ever lived I have had a designated space to \u201cwrite\u201d which has never been used. The combination of\u00a0a sausage dog, a student, a hyper active husband and a visiting Schnauzer (Doris) in addition to our moving home, opening a restaurant and visiting a parent in Aberdeen has made me retreat into my bed – so it seems that is my place. \u00a0My bed.<\/p>\n

The downside – and downslide is the encroaching IT blobby hanging double chin thing changing me into the \u00a0hunch chin of Notre Maison but would that bother Fiona Bruce? Would it? No so I stare at my laptop which is on\u2026well my lap and all this whilst trying to avoid snorkelling a large glass of white\u00a0 – after all its only 11am.<\/p>\n

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mmmnnnnn t- this is not my chin – sadly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So – this weeks update is\u2026.<\/p>\n

I have completed my synopsis which is very satisfying. It\u2019s about 5 pages long though and according to my new guru Maggie James<\/a> \u201d it\u2019s supposed to be 1 or 2 so I am squeezing it and trying to leave out superfluous details\u00a0 – which is hard when you witter on as much as I do and \u00a0 love a superfluous detail.<\/p>\n

Having reread it until my eyes bled, I have sent it off to my literary genius friend who will give me feedback. Which I will in turn feedback to you. Good, bad, or bin it I promise, warts and all, \u00a0it\u2019s coming your way after all we are in this together.<\/p>\n

So\u2026\u2026fingers crossed she likes it or the fantasy 11am wine will be brought forward to\u00a0 9am followed by a gin martini chaser.<\/p>\n

OK off to pack a box as the removal men are coming….\u2026\u2026and \u00a0as for your good self – \u00a0keep writing!!!!<\/p>\n

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Charlie Sausage and Doris Schnauzer – in love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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