I have written a novel that is in first person with three different characters telling their stories. Okay now my question is when I write the synopsis for an agent, should I tell one person's story at a time or flip flop like I do in the book between the characters. Please lead me in the right direction.
Synopsis question
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The synopsis should be written in third person, showing the movement of the central plot arc. In other words, when your book shifts from one character to another, it still should be moving the central or major plot arc forward.
Best of luck,
Jim Clark-Dawe
Best of luck,
Jim Clark-Dawe
The synopsis concerns the major storyline, and all three characters should be part of it, or you have a problem. Three major characters still means you need only one story. Everything else is subplot.
What's said above. Also, what helped me was reading the inside flaps of hardcover books that were in the same genre as mine, because usually those descriptions are longer than the ones on the backs of books, like a synopsis.