I had to write one of those pithy sentences for my undergraduate project--which also happened to be a novel. Basically, write a paragraph synopsis including the main character, the main conflict, and a main them. Then look at your paragraph a few minutes later (or a day, however long you want) and trim. A snip here and a snip there; you'll eventually get it down to a few words. You might have some "hippie" stuff like truth and love, but if those are important than you can't leave them out.
Here's what I came up with for my own novel: "To escape a forced marriage, a young woman disguises herself as a man to fight in the Civil War and soon discovers that true freedom is not at all what she expected."
Yours might be: "A young fairy stumbles onto the mystery of why her people have lost their magic and in turn learns that what she was truly missing was not magic at all."
A bit tweeish, but no pot smoke in sight I think :D.
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Date: 2006-09-19 12:30 am (UTC)Here's what I came up with for my own novel: "To escape a forced marriage, a young woman disguises herself as a man to fight in the Civil War and soon discovers that true freedom is not at all what she expected."
Yours might be: "A young fairy stumbles onto the mystery of why her people have lost their magic and in turn learns that what she was truly missing was not magic at all."
A bit tweeish, but no pot smoke in sight I think :D.