I Used to Be Indecisive...

How should a sequel begin? I'm embarking on another round of rewriting Discord's Apprentice. Once again, chapter one doesn't want to keep still. Every time I look at it, I alter it completely. I keep changing my mind about whether to plunge straight in with the action, add a prologue to bring new readers up to date with essential elements of the back story or to try to dribble the information throughout the narrative and risk making it slow.

Hmm... A re-read of the opening of Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant sequels or David Eddings' The Belgariad ought to help, except I doubt I'll be able to stop at just the opening. They do say, though, that if you want to write you have to read, don't they?