Summaries don't mean starting the scene where you had left off. Summaries is when you only include the things that are important to your story in some way. Because believe it or not readers can assume things too.
[1] Things Not Needed When Writing Summaries
This is when I'm going to explain to you some of the things that you don't need to include when you're writing your summaries. Otherwise, you would just be adding useless words that aren't needed.
[a] Uneventful Travel
When someone walks out of a room or walks, flies, or rides to a new location you can leave it out. Unless there's something important with how they got there, which in that case, would be a very smart thing to include.
[b] Home-life Maintenance
If you don't say anything about what happened that day or the rest of the night, readers will assume normal things like sleeping, eating, reading, or watching television took place.
[c] Workday Maintenance
Everyone can guess at what happened during their workday. We know that the lawyer will have meetings, answer phone calls, and read briefs as part of their normal day. We also know the teacher will have coffee in the teacher's lounge, give lessons, no grade papers. No need to even briefly go over those things unless doing so will help your story.
[d] Relationship Maintenance
If you skip how the hero kisses his wife when he gets home or the look on his face during his well missed dinner, readers will assume the relationship rolling forward as it was before.
[e] Emotions Already Stated
If you say your protagonist is depressed and skip telling us her frame of mind between breakfast and dinner, readers will assume she continued to act depressed. No need to repeat or fortify this idea unless it helps your story.
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