We're at week 42. Where has the year gone?
To have a prologue or not is a personal decision. One reader will peruse it while another will skip it. I did a review of my published and unpublished works and as rule I don't do prologues. It is just a practical decision. The start of a novel has to hook the reader if not within the first sentence at least within the first few paragraphs. Writing the perfect beginning doesn't always come easy. So why would I want to do it twice? Once for Chapter 1 and once for the prologue.
That said, there was one novel where I toyed with having a prologue. But after an editorial review it was moved from being a stand-alone section and turned into the head of the first chapter. So without further ado, here's the prologue that wasn't, from Windmaster.
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~till next time, Helen
This is a blog hop so visit the other authors for their take on prologues. ~till next time, Helen
If you're going to do a prologue, that's a good way to do it: with a short, cryptic prophecy that jumpstarts the story and to which the reader can refer easily.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning is nice, and I can see why it almost became a prologue but also why it didn't need to be.
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