Synopsis Writing

For this assignment, please create a synopsis for a mythological story.

Please choose a creature type from the list below or make a new one. You may, if you so choose, combine creature types or use more than one.

Creature Type Options:

Sasquatch
Ghosts
Spirits
Merfolk
Mythical (Norse, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Chinese, Hindu, etc.)
Heroes
Zombies
Vampires
Aliens

Categories:

• Who are they?
• What is their goal?
• How are they going to get their goal?
• What do they have to do to get their goal?
• What can we learn from them?

There is no length limit to the synopsis, but it should contain the following components in paragraphs, which echo the categories above.
• Characters
• Motives
• Quest
• Path to Adventure
• Obstacles
• Result (success/failure)
• Reflection
• Conclusion/Moral
Please put the paragraphs together into a single synopsis (one story with no headings).

A synopsis is the narrative summary of a story’s plot (which means it is not the full story in detail). It is typically used by writers who are seeking to publish their work, as a proof of concept. Its most important function is to break down all the important parts of the story in a way that can be better articulated (or re-articulated) later.
Here’s a sample of a synopsis:
A Prairie Home Zombie
A Synopsis
“You might be the undead queen of an army of damned putrid souls, but you sure as shoot can get shot just like everybody else.”
—Hope Riverwild
Schoolmaster Chance McPrudence is content with his quiet life. He lives with his sister in a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the fledging eighteenth century community of Riverside, New Mexico. He is well respected in the community and enjoys his work, as well as weaving on his loom, and riding horses across the open plains. But when he finds a mysterious stranger near death in his barn, his quiet life is turned upside down. He cares and nurses this stranger back to health only to find that she is, in fact, the notorious outlaw Hope Riverwild.
Hope Riverwild is wanted in six states for armed bank robbery, moonshine running, and general shenanigan causing. Armed with a shotgun, two six shooters, and a tomahawk, she is clearly not a woman to be trifled with. It is rumored that the notorious Billy the Kid once got into a barroom brawl with her that left him with only nine toes. As Hope regains her strength, she finds herself strangely drawn to the kind and caring Chance, but she must be careful. Surely he could never love her. He is just too handsome, too kind, too settled. Things are just too perfect.
Hope is puzzled by Chance’s nature. He seems compelled to care. He dotes over his sickly sister, Lilith, who never fully recovered from a childhood rattlesnake attack and is now homebound with prolonged bouts of Cotard’s syndrome, an illness where sufferers actually believe that they are dead. Hope suspects that Chance sees her just as fragile and in need of protection as Lilith. Eventually, care turns to love and Chance proposes marriage. For Hope, who has been a hired gun since she was 10, this is intolerable. Hope steals Chance’s favorite horse and returns to her rebel life on the lam.
Driven mad by this betrayal, Chance’s veneer of perfection dissolves and his true nature is revealed. Underneath his quiet school teacher life, Chance is actually a brujo, a witchdoctor. His sister, Lilith, does not really suffer from Cotard’s syndrome and did not actually survive the rattlesnake attack. In actuality, Lilith is a zombie queen and general of a vast army of the undead compelled by her brother’s dark magic to do his nefarious bidding. Chance sends Lilith and her horde out to find and destroy Hope Riverwild.
They find Hope in a saloon playing poker and drowning her sorrows. Soon after, a tremendous battle ensues. Hope survives and flees into the wilderness but the army that pursues her is seemingly never-ending. Over weeks, Hope realizes that she will never be free until she deals with Chance. After much planning and with some help from her friends, Hope wages an epic battle against him. While Hope is just fighting for freedom, little does she realize that the ramifications of her fight will be felt forever.