Synopsis Professional Critique Service

DON’T SEND OUT THAT SYNOPSIS… Without a professional review from the professionals at Writer’s Digest!

Does your synopsis articulate the value of your proposal, and engage editors and agents? A synopsis critique from 2nd Draft Critique Service provides you with specific, tailored advice for your 2-page synopsis. Make sure that your synopsis piques the curiosity of your target audience!

Price & Length Requirement

Price: $39.99
Length:  2-page synopses of both fiction and nonfiction (memoir) work, formatted to the specifications below.

 

 

What Can You Expect from a 2nd Draft Synopsis Review

2nd Draft Critique Service provides a high-level review of your work, pointing out reasons that an agent or publisher may not be interested after reading your synopsis. It offers:

  • An overall evaluation of the synopsis’ strengths and weaknesses
  • Specific comments on appropriateness to proposed target market
  • A non-biased assessment on the effectiveness of your synopsis
  • A red flag on consistent issues of grammar, mechanics, spelling or style
  • A clear idea of how to revise

SAMPLE SYNOPSIS CRITIQUE

What Can You NOT Expect?

2nd Draft reviewers will not:

  • Rewrite or revise for you, except in the case of providing an example of how to revise on your own.
  • Correct grammar, mechanics and spelling. This requires a professional copyeditor or proofreader. However, a reviewer will point out any patterns of surface-level error that may pose a significant problem for you.
  • Check and correct for style (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style or AP style). This requires a professional copyeditor or proofreader.
  • Provide any fact-checking.
  • Provide answers or advice on legal issues.

Process and Requirements

  1. First, you must complete the 2nd Draft information and payment process at WritersDigestShop.com.
  2. You will receive an automatic confirmation of your order with instructions on how to submit your synopsis to us via e-mail. (Sorry, but we cannot accept hard copies.)
  3. Our staff will be in touch within 3 days about the assignment of your project to a professional critiquer.
  4. After a professional critiquer is assigned, they will e-mail you to introduce themselves, and estimate a timeframe for turnaround.
  5. The critiquer will e-mail you an editorial review of your synopsis in an attachment. If you submitted your synopsis as a Word or RTF document, they will also return this with any related mark-up or in-text comments.

FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
All documents must be submitted electronically in ONE of the following formats:

  • Word document (.doc or .docx)
  • Rich Text File (.rtf)

All documents MUST adhere to the professional manuscript formatting standards, which are:

  • 8.5 x 11 page size
  • Double-spacing throughout
  • 1-inch margins on top and bottom
  • 1.25-inch margins on left and right sides
  • Arial, Courier, or Times font
  • 12-point font size

*If your submission does not meet these formatting requirements, we will either return the document to you for correction, or we will apply these settings ourselves when possible, and only critique the first 2 pages of the synopsis.