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Summaries

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Sevily:
I suck at summaries.  I think my two stories on here have summaries that are just one sentence each haha

Mariah:
There's a great amount of thought that goes into summaries in general. I just look at it as a teaser trailer. Someone told me once. Its harder than writing the story.

mare:
I think it's much harder than writing a story. To find the exact, right thing to say to have someone click on your story or read a novel without throwing it in the garbage can be really stressful, especially the second scenerio. lol

RokofAges75:
It really is!  And sometimes it's hard when you're just starting a story and don't know exactly where you're going with it yet, cause I feel like to write a summary, you need to know what the story is really about, even if you don't include all that in the summary itself.  I'm a planner/outliner, and even I find that tough with certain ideas.  I really struggled with that Curtain Call summary because all I really had was a premise... a premise I didn't want to give away... and not a real clear idea on where it was all going yet.  I'm happy with how it turned out, though.

mare:
Oh, I know what you mean. I agree, I think it's really important to have some idea of where you are going with the story in order to give a decent summary but if you kind of know at least the general idea, you could probably get through it with no problems.

Just no matter what, no one should use the I suck at summaries line for their summaries! lol

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