Abridgments

Usage examples of synopses.

Editors are not likely to like my advance synopses in any case, for it is simply impossible for me to give the flavor of a story not yet written in a synopsis.

I write my own synopses only when the editor twists my arm and demands it-which is usually.

He had written plenty of brief or vague mission synopses in the past, in the press of events or exhaustion.

We don't have any way to know that where Jurgensen's synopses are concerned, and he won't tell us.

True, they've done so only in private conversations, not publicly, but you and I have both read the Foreign Ministry's synopses of Ambassador Kaiserfest's discussions with their Secretary of State.

But the fact that he never so much as hinted—as far as I can tell from the synopses, at least—that Haven was preparing to resume active operations strikes me as significant.

From time to time I made rough sketches or synopses of what was to follow, immediately or far ahead.

That it is untrue for my story, a mere reading of the synopses should show.