Paperback Writer has a cool (and short) list of things to watch for and do when trying to write your novel’s synopsis. The post starts out with:
1. Eliminate excess adverbs and adjectives: write as spare and clean as you can. When you give someone directions, you don’t tell them what color all of the other houses on your block are.
Heh. So true!!
She also has another post about how to keep healthy as a writer.