I've used lines as summaries, also, so perhaps I shouldn't talk ...
I guess you really can't anticipate what's going to appeal to the audience. Like an audience is a monolithic entity with only one opinion on anything. What's a fascinating teaser to one person is annoyingly vague to another and irritatingly trite to someone else.
Of the Big Bang previews so far, I've found most of them pretty helpful (in either deciding whether to read the story or whether it won't be my thing) and a couple that are too vague to be useful at all. I like creative previews as much as the next person but there needs to be actual information in it ...!
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I guess you really can't anticipate what's going to appeal to the audience. Like an audience is a monolithic entity with only one opinion on anything. What's a fascinating teaser to one person is annoyingly vague to another and irritatingly trite to someone else.
Of the Big Bang previews so far, I've found most of them pretty helpful (in either deciding whether to read the story or whether it won't be my thing) and a couple that are too vague to be useful at all. I like creative previews as much as the next person but there needs to be actual information in it ...!