Comments on: Trilogy recaps: a thin line between boring and nonsense https://glendalarke.com/2006/10/trilogy-recaps-thin-line-between/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/10/trilogy-recaps-thin-line-between/#comment-24541 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:29:00 +0000 #comment-24541 Thanks I.p.w.!

Lisa, I use the same beta readers. If I please someone with book 2 who hasn’t read book 1, then maybe I am doing too much recapping for people did read book 1. Can’t win!

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/10/trilogy-recaps-thin-line-between/#comment-24540 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:22:00 +0000 #comment-24540 I agree that sprinkling mentions of the most important issues from book 1 and 2 through subsequent books is best. Also agree that it is hard to do right. Too much and you annoy the reader, too little and you confuse them.

Glenda, a question regarding beta readers…

Do you use the same beta readers for the whole trilogy, or for books 2 and 3, do you get someone who hasn’t read the other book/s? I ask because I think if you can draw in a new reader with book 2 or 3 without confusion, then you’ve done something very very right in regards to recapping.

Cheers, Lisa.

]]> By: ink paw prints https://glendalarke.com/2006/10/trilogy-recaps-thin-line-between/#comment-24539 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:52:00 +0000 #comment-24539 good luck with that… it must be a really tough thing to do. The writers who just summarise everything are cheaters 😉

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