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Yiphen

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That's about it. The name of my story is called Little Things, and I'm curious about whether you guys think the it's interesting or not since I wrote it differently than the synopses I've seen so far.
 

BenJepheneT

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i think the link's broken, m'dude. or quote me if im the only one experiencing this
 

binarysoap

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That's about it. The name of my story is called Little Things, and I'm curious about whether you guys think the it's interesting or not since I wrote it differently than the synopses I've seen so far.
The huge block of text is intimidating at first glance. Usually, I complain about other people''s synopsis being too short, but in this case, I feel like it's ridiculously long. Not to mention that it doesn't even tell a potential reader much about what the story is even about. The only thing I got out of that huge block of text is the story is probably about a man writing a story about the little things? Except the tags suggest something more.
Either way, I do not think this is a good synopsis.
 

Yiphen

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it doesn't even tell a potential reader much about what the story is even about. The only thing I got out of that huge block of text is the story is probably about a man writing a story about the little things?
I made the synopsis about why I decided to write the story in the first place since I was curious about whether or not it would work. Does it seem about right from that perspective?
 

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I made the synopsis about why I decided to write the story in the first place since I was curious about whether or not it would work. Does it seem about right from that perspective?
As you could probably tell from my comment, I was under the assumption that you are writing about a guy writing a story. I'm pretty sure many others would feel the same.
So no, it doesn't work, because you did not make it clear that your "synopsis" is why you wrote it, and even if you did make it clear, you should still at least give a general clue about what the story is actually about.
Some people might be interested in why you decided to write the story in the first place, but the synopsis is not the place to do it, and if you want to stick it in there, you shouldn't make it the main focus.
 
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