Sorry I'm posting this a little late - it's been a busy morning. Thanks again to
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jpsorrow for setting the project up.I'm actually going to post two synopses, both on my current WIP, Avender in America. Both are still in the working stage, though the longer one has been shown to my editor. Given that the idea is a little different from the normal fantasy tropes, he wouldn't buy it on the synopsis alone, though he loved the idea. First he wanted to see if I could pull it off. (For that matter, I want to see if I can pull it off. I may not have the chops for it.)
The shorter synopsis is something I just started working on this week. I thought I'd be further along, but events in the financial world have occupied my attention a little more closely than normal.
So, herewith, a pair of synopses. Read the second, longer one, at your own risk. It's about 4,000 words. Links to the other participants in the project follow the links to the two synopses.
(My apologies for not being able to hide any of this behind a cut. Despite the help of some good LJ friends, I still can't get my cuts to work.)
Short Synopsis
Buried alive by his best friend, Avender awakes to find himself in a land of great magics. A land where anyone can fly, or race across the land faster than the fastest stallion; where gleaming towers fill the night sky with more light than the moon and stars; where money hides on small cards and every child has more toys than the richest prince in Malmoret.
A place called Pittsburgh.
It is hard for someone accustomed to a world where clothes are washed by beating them on rocks to adjust to life in America. But it’s especially hard for Avender because no one believes he’s who he says he is, the Captain of King Brizen’s Guard in Malmoret and Banking. They think he’s Drew Ventner, officer in the Pittsburgh Police Department and sudden hero because of the way he’s just rescued a small child from near death in an explosion at a local factory. The Hero of the Glassworks the local newscasts call him, especially as he lost his memory in the blast. And his left hand. And that his memory of his friend cutting his hand off and burying him alive is just a romantic story his injured mind made up to help him cope with the loss..
Join Avender/Drew as he struggles to understand this new life, so different from the old one. Join him as he slowly realizes that, whatever his more lofty status in Malmoret and Banking, his life in the real world is far better than the one he thinks he left behind. In America he has a wife and family and a house with two bathrooms and a refrigerator and the internet and TV. And no friends trying to kill him, either.
Until his life gets a lot more complicated when he discovers that, far from making up Avender’s imaginary past on his own, it’s all something from a fantasy trilogy by a mid-list writer named S.C. Butler. And Mr. Butler wants his character back.
Long Synopsis
Long Synopsis
September 19 2008, 15:57:15 UTC 3 years ago
By the way, when you peview a page with a cut, or go to "view this page", the cut doesn't show ... it's only when you view the whole journal, or the entry is part of a friends list, that the cut shows up.
So it's possible you were doing it correctly, and just couldn't see!
And I still think this is the most awesome of story ideas, and hope you can sell it, so I can read it. (Sadly, there will be no shape-shifting bears in Pittsburgh, though...)
September 19 2008, 16:21:08 UTC 3 years ago
Thanks for the morale boost on the story. I've all but finished the first draft and I definitely don't have the chops needed to make it work yet. But I'm trying.
September 19 2008, 16:49:31 UTC 3 years ago
September 19 2008, 17:06:23 UTC 3 years ago
September 19 2008, 17:13:56 UTC 3 years ago
I am baffled why the cuts don't work for you.
Forget the text in the cut header. Go the simple route and have LJ insert the standard "Read more" for you. That's what I do.
At the start of the text you want to hide put . At the end of the text you're hiding put . That should open and close your cut every single time.
If it doesn't, you need to contact support. Free account or no, that should work.
Great synopsis by the way. :)
September 19 2008, 17:16:22 UTC 3 years ago Edited: September 19 2008, 17:17:23 UTC
Okay... To open the cut put lj-cut inside <>. To close the cut put /lj-cut inside <>. No spaces between the brackets and the code.
As I said, that will work. It certainly hid things in my comment. *g*
September 19 2008, 17:23:46 UTC 3 years ago
Glad you liked the synopsis. Short version, I presume? Anyone who reads the long one is nuts.
September 19 2008, 17:27:08 UTC 3 years ago
September 20 2008, 01:06:51 UTC 3 years ago
I read the long one.
Guess that makes me nuts ... but I'm intrigued by the complexity of the universes this story will require.
September 20 2008, 03:21:07 UTC 3 years ago
I've also made quite a few changes from the long synopsis, which is one of the reasons the story still needs immense amounts of work. Not to mention the fact that I'm not even close to getting the narrative voice right.