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Summaries: Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Ugh. I love summaries when I'm deciding what to read, but I hate writing them. I like for them to be as simple as possible, and I try to stick to one sentence, if at all possible.
To distill something down to its basics, I have to determine what, besides getting my pilots laid, the story is about. That's not always as easy as it sounds without giving something away, so writing a summary is second only to titling for my ick list.
Ugh. I love summaries when I'm deciding what to read, but I hate writing them. I like for them to be as simple as possible, and I try to stick to one sentence, if at all possible.
To distill something down to its basics, I have to determine what, besides getting my pilots laid, the story is about. That's not always as easy as it sounds without giving something away, so writing a summary is second only to titling for my ick list.
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Date: 2015-10-12 09:49 pm (UTC)Yessssss so much this. Someone once told me they'd found a good article on the art of summarizing and of course I didn't read it when they linked it and it's long gone now...huh. Maybe I'll try to find it or something like it, if I do I'll share :)
I have to determine what, besides getting my pilots laid, the story is about
lol :D
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Date: 2015-10-12 11:58 pm (UTC)Yes. Please do.
It's all about the sex. :D
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Date: 2015-10-13 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-15 01:56 am (UTC)