...in order to remind you what happened in the previous book(s).
45% Cleverly inserted reminders
41% Synopsis at the beginning
29% Glossary at the back
22% Don't need reminders - I reread the previous books
3% Don't need reminders - I remember everything
It doesn't add up to 100% because I allowed people to vote more than once.
I didn't expect so many to prefer a synopsis. (Hate them myself. Hate reading them, hate writing them.)
I suspect the operative word with the winner is "cleverly". There is nothing worse than unsubtle info dumps in the first chapter or two.
And oh, wouldn't I love to be one of those folk who remember everything? I don't even remember what I wrote in the previous book!
Thanks for entering the poll!!
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
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2 comments:
So I'll be interested to see what you end up doing.
Can tell you what I won't be doing...writing a synopsis.
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