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Originally Posted by Spectrum  But my glossary also shouldn't tell the reader more than I want him to know. A big part of my story will be the mystery and the gradual unveiling of the "Big Picture". This is one of the things I love myself, namely being driven on through the series by a craving to find out how it's all connected; the various factions and characters, the villains' master plan, the back stories of characters and civilizations, and the entire cosmos.
So my plan is that the glossary will be small in the first book and then grow throughout the series as more information is revealed. |
You can still do all of that. Although you should just have the whole glossary, IMO, from the start.
For example you can have XYZ as "an unknown entity that creates strife and distress" and so forth and so on.
The point of a glossary is not to reveal or un-reveal, it is to define. What you are talking about now is more like an appendix--an addition to the plot that doesn't impact the plot but provides more information.