The Problems of Writing Sequels
I’m currently writing a sequel to The Wind Reader, the book coming out from Inspired Quill in September, so I’ve been thinking about sequels and wondering what makes a good one. Specifically, two questions arise, one having to do with the outer arc of plot and other with the inner arc of character development. The outer arc in a sequel First, how much recounting of a previous book’s plot does the writer need to do? My first instinct is to say that…