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NANOWRIMO PREPTOBER // How To Answer "What Are You Writing About?"

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Channel: Kate Cavanaugh Writes · 2017 · People & Blogs

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4 exercises/things to know to help you answer that question:

1) One-sentence summary
2) Synopsis
3) Genre, target-audience, comparable works
4) Title
Bonus) Front cover and/or banner

Let's be NaNo buddies! :)

L I N K S  M E N T I O N E D :
NaNoWriMo 1 sentence description thread: https://nanowrimo.org/forums/all-ages-coffee-house/threads/418516

D I S C U S S I O N  Q U E S T I O N S :
Do you have a title for your story already? Do you know what you're writing about for NaNo?
Do you find the one-sentence summary or the synopsis harder?

F I N D  M E  O N L I N E :
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NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/participants/writersgonnawrite-2784594

M Y  S Y N O P S I S  F O R  2 0 1 7 :
Since his arrival three years ago, MC has been The Zoo’s biggest triumph. As one of the most popular exhibits with patrons, caretakers, and other animals alike, MC leads an enjoyable life with little worry, full of good food, attention, and snarky back-and-forth with his nearby neighbors. Though he’s noticed his length of stay is abnormally long, he’s never questioned it, for his newfound life on The Zoo is much better than his dark, previous one.
That is, until he’s no longer the only human attraction on The Planet. Now joined by four new earthlings, survivors of a lone ship explosion on a mission they won’t tell him of, MC must relearn what it’s like to socialize with his own kind, a kind that never treated him well before. But as his understanding, and fondness, of his exhibit-mates grows, so too do his questions.
After a death, failed escape attempt, and romance rock MC’s previously content world, he must decide whether to stay in the increasingly corrupt Zoo or leave for the unknown.

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