Two Sentence Synopsis Saturday

This is from Murder and Mint Tea, the book of mine that has sold the most over the years.

Faced with a tenant she doesn't want and one who has managed to bring strife to Katherine Miller's neighborhood, she wishes for a way to rid the apartment of the woman, but murder wasn't the solution she sought.

Can Katherine discover the killer's identity when she fears one of her neighbors or family members is responsible?

Two Sentence Synopsis Saturday

Since Shortcut To Love is now available from many places, I thought I'd show the two sentence synopsis I did for this one. The story is one of my favorites and is told rather tongue-in-cheek. It perhaps may be a satire.

Since she fell over the back fence into his yard, Zelda has loved Michael, first as the older boy and later as a man but when they encountered each other, disasters happened.

How can Zelda manage to show Michael she's the one when he seems to be working his dating ways through the alphabet and is only on D when she's a Z?

Challenge - Two sentence synopsis continued

This is the two sentence synopsis for the story I plan to start when I finish the one I'm working on. I know little more than the characters names and their occupations but this will keep me focused on the story.

Matt has no interest in leaving the bachelor life until he crashes into a heated encounter with the girl he wasn't nice to all through school and discovers she's not the nerd he remembered. As their passion escalates how can he convince Sara he's not in this for the fling but intends a serious seduction?

Challenge for writers

There's somethng I do before starting to write a book that usually keeps me focused on the story. Note, I say sometimes. There are times I've been diverted from the story and that's usually because as what I've set out to do has evolved into more than one story.

When I started writing, I came across a book by Dwight Swain that was a great help while I struggled with learning to form my ideas into stories. I wish I had the book but I loaned it to someone and haven't received it back so I'll try to explain in my less that wonderful way and issue a challenge to fellow writers.

What one does when the ideas and characters are bubbling in the thoughts is to write what your story will be in two sentences. One is a statement and the other is a question. This is sort of a synopsis in two sentences. Here's the one I wrote for one of my latest releases, The Warrior of Bast. This was done before I began the story.

Statement - On the run from she sister's killers, Tira reads a flyer offering an escape and a chance for her to fulfill a dream.

Question - As a warrior of Bast with the help of Kashe, a warrior of Horu, can she find the missing symbols of an ancient Egypt and defeat the priests of Aken Re?

The challenge is this during the next month, write your own two sentence synopsis of the story you're working on or one you plan to write and post it on your own blog or put it in the comment section of mine. For blog followers, there may be a surprise.