Synopsis for the Debut Dagger

As you may know, I am working on participating to the Debut Dagger Award. I have worked on it and I might actually be ble to submit the work on time. I am a bit more confident (but still cautiously confident) that at least I will submit something presentable. Partially because one of my fellow writers at the writing workshop, one who actually has a book deal already, helped me a lot for the synopsis. She really helped me sex it up a bit, so to speak, and make it gripping for new readers. Not only that, but since she only saw part of the story and not the whole thing, it showed me that readers could connect to what I had written, enough ti understand and relate to the characters. Ironically, she was once very critical about one of my character, saying that he was a chauvinistic dinosaur. Boy had I felt deflated at that time! Now I'm glad I stuck to the workshop.

The Debut Dagger Award

The host of our writing workshop sent me information about a writing competition from the Crime Writers' Association: the Debut Dagger Award. That is how much of an asocial and an ignoramus I am when it comes to what's on in the literary world of my country fo adoption: I didn't know about it. be that as it may, I am very tempted to participate in it. I do not have a novel completed, but I do have a story that is long enough to be a novella, and that can potentially be developed into a full lenght novel. All that needs to be done is to send the opening of the novel (3,000 words), then an synopsis of up to 1,500 words. I got the opening done, all I need is to write a synopsis. I have never truly done oen before, but that should be simple enough. I know my chnces are slim at best, but I might as well try.