When one wrutes an epilogue, is it for the last book in a series. Or can you, say, write it in the first book? If you do write it in the first book, does that mean you can't have a sequel?
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By convention, an epilogue tells the reader what happens to the characters after the book ends.
If you want to write a sequel, showing what happens to the characters after the book ends, an epilogue might not be a good idea.
If your "sequel" is set in the same universe, but doesn't involve the same characters (some sequels are like that), then an epilogue would probably be okay.
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Okay.... say the characters in the sequel are the descendents (sp?) of a character in the first book. Would that be any different? Because then I would be refering to their 'ancestor' at times.
I'm not saying that I would write an epilogue. It was just a question I thought of while laying in bed last night.
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You could probably use an epilogue if your sequel deals with later generations.
The thing is, as with practically everything a writer puts into a story, there has to be a really good reason for having an epilogue.
If you can encourage readers to buy the sequel because it might tell them what happened to the characters in the first book after the end of the first book, then an epilogue would be counter-productive.
I think writers tend to include epilogues because they don't plan on coming back to that world/universe/storyline and they want the readers to be satisfied, so they don't have to write any more about those characters or that place.
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by what do you mean join a group? Is it a group of other charachters as in LOTR's fellowship? Most any way, this could easily be answered if asked more detailed. To me that is.
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