Redundant Recap

A common earmark on stories created by role playing games is the insistence on describing the events that happened in previous chapters again and again. Sometimes the text is just copy-pasted there as if we hadn't read it before. This can happen without a role playing game if the author thinks it's a sequel, or they think you won't read the previous chapter (chapterization). When this happens in printed novels, it is called Left Behind and Harry Potter.

Example:

"Soon a series of single shots could be heard. Each shot gave Frederike flashbacks of the horrors she had seen. BANG – Tiponi ran towards the priest. She tried to stop him, but he just pulled his gun without a word and fired a single round. Tiponi didn’t even scream as the back of her head exploded in a geyser of blood, brain and bone; and then everything that was Tiponi was no more…"

From "Fredericke Weismann" (www.chakatsden.com/chakat//Stories/FrederikeWeismann-1.html)

The above paragraph was placed in a chapter following the chapter describing the exact same events. It would be great, except we already read what happened. This whole paragraph could really be summed up in one sentence. As could the others that follow. Simply mentioning the pain or the injury would be enough to recall the events in the reader's mind.

The Tales of the Folly series uses this cliche so frequently that you can just glance at a chapter and see it.

Another example:

Pitty-Pat, the calico chakat who’d been staying near him since the day they’d arrived, lay half beneath him, embracing him with both arms as shi used hir body as a cushion for his head and shoulders.-Taurger's Tale (www.furry.org.au/chakat/Stories/Taurger.htm)

We just read two whole chapters involving Pitty-Pat, and yet we're given an explanation about who she is all of a sudden.