I have always been poor at writing things without including excessive detail, but I managed to rewrite my synopsis with very little detail and with personal detailed side notes not included within the actual synopsis. It is solely the overall plot, but it is still 18 pages. Is this too long?
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3somebody answered this question before here– LewCommented Aug 17, 2016 at 20:09
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The proposed duplicate is for general advice about synopsis-writing; this one is specifically about length.– StandbackCommented Aug 25, 2016 at 6:36
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Quote from the linked source, which pretty much summarizes the article:
...if you ever send me five page synopsis for every 15K words I'll toss it unread. 3-5 is the MAX no matter how long your novel is. And no cheating by using 5pt fonts and .25 inch margins. Synopsis are not a blow for blow recitation of the plot. It's major points, turning points, character description and development and it's SHORT...
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2Could you briefly summarize the content of the page you linked to? This will help future visitors to the site in case of link rot. Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 2:23
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1Unexplained links and one sentence answers are a faux pas. Please make this answer more substantial or I will downvote it. Links should be used to reference what is being explained. Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 9:45
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1no, you described what was in the link. Please recap what's in the link. "Miss Snark says blah blah blah because XYZ, and TKTKTK because of her experience in such-and-such." The link above would still be useless if the source page went away, which is what "link rot" means. Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 14:23