
“Crafting an Effective Synopsis” with Richard Santos
August 7, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM CDT
$99.00
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WLT Members! If you’re looking to polish your query letters and synopses, join us for a week of intensives to workshop and receive feedback on your querying materials. Starting Monday, August 7th, we’re hosting two intensives on synopses (Monday, August 7th & Wednesday, August 9th) and two intensives on query letters (Tuesday, August 8th and Thursday, August 10th). There are only ten spots per intensive, so sign up before they sell out!
Are you struggling to write a synopsis to send to potential agents?
In this special evening intensive class, you will learn the necessary components of a synopsis in the classroom component, and then work on your own synopsis in the lab component. Students will leave the class with a draft or revision of a synopsis for their writing project.
Prior to the class, each student will send the following to the instructor:
- Two-page synopsis draft for your writing project
- Your author bio.
If you don’t have any or all of these things, you can still attend the class, but we do urge you to send in what you can in order to have a richer experience.
Sign up soon (current members only!), as registration will be strictly capped at 10.
TAKE THIS CLASS IF
- You want to learn strategies for writing effective synopses.
- You want feedback on your own synopsis.
Please note: Most of the examples in this intensive will relate to fiction writing, but much of the information will be applicable to nonfiction and the workshop section will allow for nonfiction-specific feedback.
The deadline to register for this class is Monday, August 7 at 5:00 PM CDT.
Richard Z. Santos' debut novel, Trust Me, was a finalist for the Writer's League of Texas Book Awards and was named one of the best debuts of the year by Crime Reads. He's the editor of the anthology A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories. His fiction has been nominated for The Pushcart, Best of the Net, the International Thriller Writers Awards, and has been cited in Best American Mystery and Suspense. His stories, nonfiction, and essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, The Rumpus, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Like the Wind, Austin Noir, Lone Stars Rising, and more.