Thread:AngryLance/@comment-37028137-20200128044919/@comment-39280634-20200308214000

Oh crap. I totaly forgot about the montage. Forgive me. And thanks for reminding me.

So what you're telling is that by the time the novel starts, Nick and Vellantha already know each other for quite some time ? And the montage is meant to better establish them up to that point. Personaly, I'd say go for it. I'm not sure how or why others might hate this but it doesn't sound like a bad idea, to me at least. Maybe it might be 'too fast' of a sequence of events for other readers to get a bead on, not sure. Alternatively, you could save those 'montages' for a completely different set of stories or novel, like a prequel of sorts (although I feel this might be too much extra effort so I wouldn't recomand it). Again, I say go for it; should readers find it weird or confusing, you can always try to better flesh out those 'montage' stories later when you can. I also suggest that you ask some more people about it; who else did you asked and what do they thought of it ?