What would you rather read? · 5:47am Jan 4th, 2013
This probably isn't what you think. In some ways, synopses are more important than the stories themselves. No matter how well written the story is, if the synopsis is poorly written and fails to grab attention no one will ever read it anyway. I don't know how to write an interesting synopsis. I'm not even sure what makes for an interesting synopsis, but I'm pretty sure I know one when I see one, except apparently when I'm the one who's written it. But I'm sure you can recognize a good synopsis when you see one too. So, what I have here are three short synopses for the same unpublished story. It would be beyond extremely helpful if someone could tell me which one, if any, would interest them enough to read the full story, why, and any tips for improvement.
Basic info - AppleDash - Comedy - Romance
Synopsis 1:
Applejack ties Rainbow Dash up to a board and throws deadly sharp knives at her.
And then they make out.
Synopsis 2:
Rainbow Dash closed here eyes, thinking about everything except the straps that bound her to the wooden board. She cracked one eye open just wide enough to see Applejack, mouth full of the knives that would soon be racing though the air towards her. The things some ponies will do for love...
Synopsis 3:
Rainbow Dash is a pony who prides herself on her strength and independence, a pony who would never allow herself to be tied down for anything. But then why is it that she suddenly finds herself willingly tied down to a wooden board and facing down a knife flinging farm pony?
This silly, sweet little shipping fic will be submitted within the next two days, hopefully I've gotten someone interested in it. And yeah, pony knife throwing romance. Yeah...
Contestant number 2.
Edit: Wait, I have to include reasons?! Fine. I suppose that number 1 strikes me as a standard bare-bones clopfic with no real thought put in, while 3 sounds like a trailer for a bad mid-90's budget comedy. Number 2 also gets me intrigued, and I'm interested in seeing that scene play out.
Other things that intrigue me: phrases like 'pony knife throwing romance'
Second two :P
Do the knives end up stabbing RD's eyes out??? Maybe chop off an ear??? Then AJ chops her into little pieces, and makes out with a pile of cubesteak lumps?
I say number two then again who doesn't find it hot to have RD strapped to a table?
while you're at it make AJ wear leather! nah just kidding its up to you.
I'm going with number 2.
Go with the second. The first mentions making out, which doesn't happen in the story that you're talking about. And the third ends with a rhetorical question.
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Heh, do you think dissection and leather would qualify as silly and sweet?
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So rhetorical questions are something to be avoided then? Noted for future reference.
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I will take them all
The first one
I like number three though i seem to be extremely outnumbered.
I just think it kinda puts the reader in rainbows head for a "wtf am i doing?!" moment.
Either way, i so want to read this.
Definitely number two. Its focus on Rainbow's feelings in that exact moment almost makes for a story itself. The other two synopses are more neutral in this regard.
Also, number one is awful, but perhaps most likely to get a fic featured. Personally, I can't understand how people cannot get tired of those lazy kinds of synopses.
Oh, and I definitely want to read this...although, does there have to knives? Um, how about tying poni to board, and horsex ensues? And we forget about knives? :3?