What stuff should I put in the synopsis?

Hattmanhendrix

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I am having trouble with what to put in the description for my series "Shouting the battle cry of Freedom In this other world" Shouting the battle cry of freedom in this other world. | Scribble Hub. I initially wrote it with the intention of just being there as I was not really taking this seriously as a hobby. but now it is painfully obious that my original description

"What happens when history buff and reenactment enthusiast is tossed into another world in full uniform?

“And why am I a girl?”"

is woefully inadequate. What parts of a story are important for a synopsis?
 

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As someone that has no clue on how to write a synopsis... I can say that I think anything that can hook your readers can work as a synopsis... Though of course, it does need to give a basic description of the series itself.

I personally think your synopsis fulfills that criteria... It obviously isn't very professional, but it seems functional to me.
 

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Questions are always a great way to start or end a synopsis.
Example of starting with questions:
Example of ending with questions:
 
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Synopsis - you tell something that hooks potential viewers to continue reading your story. On ScribbleHub, it is like the back cover you see on stories.

Sometimes just a few questions can raise eyebrows and hook someone.

A lot also use a very brief description of what happened at start and leave it with a hook, which a lot times can also be in the form of a question (doesn't always but some do).

Others like to make their synopsis sorta shrouded in mystery so the reader doesn't know whats really about until they read thee story to find out more.

Many cases some mystery or something enticing at the end to hook readers in.
 

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I am having trouble with what to put in the description for my series "Shouting the battle cry of Freedom In this other world" Shouting the battle cry of freedom in this other world. | Scribble Hub. I initially wrote it with the intention of just being there as I was not really taking this seriously as a hobby. but now it is painfully obious that my original description

"What happens when history buff and reenactment enthusiast is tossed into another world in full uniform?

“And why am I a girl?”"

is woefully inadequate. What parts of a story are important for a synopsis?
I dunno mate I couldve rewrote it for you if you had enough info in the synopsis to begin with but this tells us almost nothing. Not even the MCs name. Like wtf. All we know is she likes history and is a girl now. What about the uniform? That could mean anything from a military outfit to a maid's attire. Also the name. We need their name.

What is the goal of the story? Or the MCs goal? What difficulties are they going to face? Is a war going on? Is she not liked by other characters? What's the state of the world like? A little something about some of these would do you good.
 

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I am having trouble with what to put in the description for my series "Shouting the battle cry of Freedom In this other world" Shouting the battle cry of freedom in this other world. | Scribble Hub. I initially wrote it with the intention of just being there as I was not really taking this seriously as a hobby. but now it is painfully obious that my original description

"What happens when history buff and reenactment enthusiast is tossed into another world in full uniform?

“And why am I a girl?”"

is woefully inadequate. What parts of a story are important for a synopsis?
Maybe a good way to make a synopsis is to think about your story's summary. You got a plot going by now surely so instead of revealing the point of everything right away from the very start, approach by vague sentences/phrases, sometimes if it fits a question, go with that as well.

(Just an example below, start)

When we finally experienced it from the beginning, the world turned dark, grim and even bloody. Hopeless and despair came forth out of the shadows and assured humanity was finally coming to its end. But years later, something changed, soon small groups changed to massive communities in a matter of months. This was our supposed last age, it was said to be the true end of our time and yet... Here is humankind returning to the light out of the darkness we dwelled once upon.

The questions still remained, how did we come back? Why now and what for? Can we really save our world once more?


(End example)

[Now I could've done it better but unfortunately, I'm also in a rush atm so just take it as you will]

Also if you ever thought to add the name of your character in the synopsis as well, that's your call really but always try to think of how you want to hook/bait in your reader to actually take interest in your story.
 

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I think a synopsis is more attractive when it gives you a taste of what is in the novel. It tells you the premise but not in too direct fashion. I read your work and you have a lot of description on the first chapters. Why not use that?

For example:
The mud clung to my skin and my wounds throbbed with pain. My uniform was wrecked, my ammunition is useless, and I am tired as heck! "Gods what did I do to deserve this?!"

(short but it's like writing a portion of the story that gives the reader an idea but not the entire story)
 
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