SYNOPSIS: "a brief summary of the major points of a subject or written work or story, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work."

• A synopsis can be a useful tool for writing, re-writing and marketing your screenplay.

• But a dynamic synopsis is not merely a collection of paragraphs and sentences recording the linear plotpoints of your story with minor descriptions of your main characters.

• A dynamic synopsis has more to offer the screenwriter and synopsis reader.

• As well as communicating the content of your script, a dynamic synopsis portrays the spirit, the tone, the poetry, the color and flavor, the unique qualities of this particular screenplay.