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Summaries
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 13, 2010, 10:56:20 PM ---She had a dream. He had a secret. They had a deal. In exchange for her silence, he’d make her dream come true. But at what cost?
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Good summary Julie.
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Thank you!! That was the first of five different summaries I had written for this story (ask Rose LOL), and the only reason I wrote four more is because I thought this one was too vague. I'm glad people seem to like it! I hoped it would be intriguing, but at the same time, I figured people would want a better idea of what the story was about LOL.
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 13, 2010, 11:26:46 PM ---Thank you!! That was the first of five different summaries I had written for this story (ask Rose LOL), and the only reason I wrote four more is because I thought this one was too vague. I'm glad people seem to like it! I hoped it would be intriguing, but at the same time, I figured people would want a better idea of what the story was about LOL.
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I told you that you shouldn't be second guessing. Not that I'm not guilty of that....lmao.
Sometimes vague is good cause it makes us click to find out exactly that. :)
RokofAges75:
I kinda go both ways with the summaries. As a reader, I like a general idea of what I'm getting into when I click on the story, but a short, intriguing summary works too. Sometimes it's fun to not have a clue and click on a story just to see what the summary even means. I don't like the super long summaries that tell half the story or the whole back story leading up to that point.
As a writer, I think most of my summaries are the shorter, vague kind because I don't like to give too much away. Sometimes, like with BMS, Undead, and 00Carter, I get longer with it.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: myconfession on July 13, 2010, 11:12:30 PM ---Summaries always tend to piss me off a little. I never know if I'm giving too much away or not giving away enough to intrigue the reader. Sometimes they come really easily for me and sometimes they don't.
Titles are always the easiest for me... I tend to come up with them sometimes before I even come up with the story. I base a lot of my stories around music, so sometimes I'll use a line from a song or the title of the song. Then I develop the story from there.
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I'm the same way with summaries; once in awhile they do come really easily, but usually it takes several revisions to get the perfect one.
Titles are the same way for me - sometimes the title comes to me right away, and I don't even consider anything else, and other times it takes me days to get even a working title I like. I can't start writing a story without a title, so it's frustrating.
myconfession:
Definitely, I can't write on a story until I have at least a good, solid title. So agree with you on that one lol
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