In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Sigh. And still no rain here.
I'm sorry. I wish this atmospheric river which is coming from Hawaii would go farther south.
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Quote:OK. I must have misunderstood the purpose.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:About a synopsis because it doesn't jive with what I've read in books about writing. So, what you posted and what I've read isn't making any sense to me. Need another source.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:???
Originally posted by Brenda:
I'll think about what you've written JSF.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:OK. I must have misunderstood the purpose.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:About a synopsis because it doesn't jive with what I've read in books about writing. So, what you posted and what I've read isn't making any sense to me. Need another source.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:???
Originally posted by Brenda:
I'll think about what you've written JSF.
I don't think you did really. I just don't think my brain has the information sorted out enough to where I can write one for myself. The synopsis has to include some of what you said but trying to make it a page long and make it make sense to me. Arrgghh!
Not totally your fault JSF.
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Rain and fog today.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
More rain
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Sigh. And still no rain here.
Quote:That WOULD be nice!
Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm sorry. I wish this atmospheric river which is coming from Hawaii would go farther south.
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Seems the month-lomg pattern here has been every week we get a blast of Santa Anas. Usually lasts only a day or two, but this time it's been Thursday thru Sunday (so far) of 90+ weather. And dry, dry, dry.
Been waiting for the soil to cool down so I can give my natives their every-other week water. They're due, since last (and only) rainfall to date was the 25th of Oct.
Supposedly we are in a la Nina condition, which often means dry for the southwest, wet for the northwest. Not sure if that includes Canada, BRENDA, but if your weather has been wetter than usual that might explain it.
*****
They're still predicting a 10F cooldown tomorrow and another 10F cooldown day after, so we will be back in the low 70s, where we belong!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:Alright. I was thinking you were having a writer's block.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:I don't think you did really. I just don't think my brain has the information sorted out enough to where I can write one for myself. The synopsis has to include some of what you said but trying to make it a page long and make it make sense to me. Arrgghh!
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:OK. I must have misunderstood the purpose.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:About a synopsis because it doesn't jive with what I've read in books about writing. So, what you posted and what I've read isn't making any sense to me. Need another source.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:???
Originally posted by Brenda:
I'll think about what you've written JSF.
Not totally your fault JSF.
But I did not explain all the steps I had in mind, or how they might develope.
Step 1. Craft a brief paragraph summery. Either copy, correct, edit what I already came up with, or whatever else you can do. Polish and smooth it out until it flows well.
Step 2. Now double the size of the synopsis, adding whatever details or salient points not included in Step 1. Either fatten the one paragraph or make a second paragraph. Refine and polish this until it is a stand alone product.
For Steps 1 and 2, you can pretend that Jim or Rafe had read a book within your story. The reader of your book doesn't need to know the whole story or details, but just a brief summary of what their book was about or why they read it. Craft the cadence and story vibe to be similar to your book's story.
Step 3. Expand the information until you have a half page of synopsis. This can be useful, because book flaps often contain synopsis, and are often a half page width, so a total of a half page size.
Step 4. Add details and other info you think is important or thrilling. Making a full page synopsis, like you said you wanted. By this method, it may seem awkward or disjointed. Consider it a starting point for crafting a better, or more fluid, version.
Retain at least one version of each of the 4 Steps. You will have them handy when somebody asks for one. Go ahead and refine, polish them if you feel like it.
I know that some writers use the method of learning the story themselves as it develops and the characters interact, and don't know the ending nor path until the characters tell the writer what happens.
That is not how the synopsis can be crafted. The beginning, middle and end are already known by you. But maybe you can imagine if you were not the writer, what of this book would be most interesting, most enticing to you, as a potential reader.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems the month-lomg pattern here has been every week we get a blast of Santa Anas. Usually lasts only a day or two, but this time it's been Thursday thru Sunday (so far) of 90+ weather. And dry, dry, dry.
Been waiting for the soil to cool down so I can give my natives their every-other week water. They're due, since last (and only) rainfall to date was the 25th of Oct.
Supposedly we are in a la Nina condition, which often means dry for the southwest, wet for the northwest. Not sure if that includes Canada, BRENDA, but if your weather has been wetter than usual that might explain it.
*****
They're still predicting a 10F cooldown tomorrow and another 10F cooldown day after, so we will be back in the low 70s, where we belong!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
SIG, my little corner of BC can be considered at times part of the Pacific Northwest.
Weather over the weekend has been very soggy and a bit into tomorrow and then a break on Tuesday followed by more rain for the rest of the week.
Gotten so much rain out into the Fraser Valley that a city called Abbotsford has had to open an emergency centre for some of their citizens. Mudslides.
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Quote:You had mentioned ferry on the sea. Which sea were you referring to?
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:SIG, my little corner of BC can be considered at times part of the Pacific Northwest.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems the month-lomg pattern here has been every week we get a blast of Santa Anas. Usually lasts only a day or two, but this time it's been Thursday thru Sunday (so far) of 90+ weather. And dry, dry, dry.
Been waiting for the soil to cool down so I can give my natives their every-other week water. They're due, since last (and only) rainfall to date was the 25th of Oct.
Supposedly we are in a la Nina condition, which often means dry for the southwest, wet for the northwest. Not sure if that includes Canada, BRENDA, but if your weather has been wetter than usual that might explain it.
*****
They're still predicting a 10F cooldown tomorrow and another 10F cooldown day after, so we will be back in the low 70s, where we belong!
Weather over the weekend has been very soggy and a bit into tomorrow and then a break on Tuesday followed by more rain for the rest of the week.
Gotten so much rain out into the Fraser Valley that a city called Abbotsford has had to open an emergency centre for some of their citizens. Mudslides.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:You had mentioned ferry on the sea. Which sea were you referring to?
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:SIG, my little corner of BC can be considered at times part of the Pacific Northwest.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems the month-lomg pattern here has been every week we get a blast of Santa Anas. Usually lasts only a day or two, but this time it's been Thursday thru Sunday (so far) of 90+ weather. And dry, dry, dry.
Been waiting for the soil to cool down so I can give my natives their every-other week water. They're due, since last (and only) rainfall to date was the 25th of Oct.
Supposedly we are in a la Nina condition, which often means dry for the southwest, wet for the northwest. Not sure if that includes Canada, BRENDA, but if your weather has been wetter than usual that might explain it.
*****
They're still predicting a 10F cooldown tomorrow and another 10F cooldown day after, so we will be back in the low 70s, where we belong!
Weather over the weekend has been very soggy and a bit into tomorrow and then a break on Tuesday followed by more rain for the rest of the week.
Gotten so much rain out into the Fraser Valley that a city called Abbotsford has had to open an emergency centre for some of their citizens. Mudslides.
British Columbia sits on the Pacific ocean and there is a ferry system that runs up the coast and over to Vancouver Island which is separated from the mainland by the Strait of Juan de Fuca. There is also the Salish sea.
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