Although some manufacturers in preparing synopses of their stories for the trade journals write them in the past tense, it is always advisable to tell your story in the present tense.
Thus the original synopses of the two accepted stories really amounted to nothing more than working, or first-draft, synopses.
A great many excellent detective-story films have been produced, either from original synopses or as adaptations of the work of fiction writers.
On the other hand, more scripts suffer from having the synopses loosely and wordily written than from being over-compressed.
If you send it to a company which asks for synopses only, you will be playing safe whether it interests them or not.
These changes being made in the scenarios, the original synopses could not be used.
Appreciating this kindness, threesynopses were submitted by the writer, and two of them accepted; the third was for certain reasons unavailable.
In addition, it is a very simple matter to write a synopsis of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty words, according to the story, and have it ready in case he finds it advisable to submit to a "two synopses requested" concern.
We have in mind a certain large company that is in the habit of paying $1,000 for all the five-reel synopses it purchases.
It is barely necessary to add that the book is in different vein from an earlier handbook, "Synopses of Dickens's Novels," which is a quick guide and index to all the plots and characters in full.
Footnote 1: Learn to give synopses rapidly, and not only in the first person singular but in any person of either number.
Footnote 1: Synopses should be given not only in the first person, but in other persons as well, particularly in the third singular and plural.
Our translations and synopses are made from Navarrete's text, ut supra, as follows: extract from the records of possession and ownership, pp.
The Synopses of the Plots of the novels are arranged in the order in which the books should be read, as indicated by their Author in Le Docteur Pascal, and confirmed by his biographer, Mr. E.
Patterson With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, Synopsesof the Plots, Bibliographical Note, Map, Genealogy, etc.
This includes the headings of the chapters and the synopses of their contents, which are, therefore, thrown in to make good measure.
If the blank spaces at the heads of the chapters and the synopses of contents were left out, it would easily go on one side.
The National War Savings Committee issued synopses of their lantern lectures last year for propaganda purposes.
Here are the synopses of the two slides dealing with the first bomb dropped on towns: A lantern picture, entitled “War in the Air,” by C.
Gives synopsesof the genera and species, and description of the species.
It contains also Appendix II, a "list of bibliographical references to memoirs, in which more or less complete synopses of the families, genera, and species of the Coleoptera of the United States have been published.
By far the greater number of the monographs and synopsesmentioned in the preceding pages have been published in scientific periodicals and in the proceedings or transactions of scientific societies.
The parts thus omitted and synopsized will be, as heretofore, indicated by enclosing the synopses in brackets.
Require the pupils to give synopses of all the forms.
Require them in some of their synopses to use it or some noun for the subject in the third person.
What type would you use for a table of contents when chapter synopses are not given?
Where chapter synopses are not given, ordinary text type may be used for the table of contents.
Such translations and synopses are here continued, the design being principally to show the religious history of the Dominicans so far as it touches the Philippines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "synopses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
