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Very helpful. Hadn’t considered the POV before.
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Glad it helped GG 😃
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These are exactly the points I learned in writing class about a Prologue. Thanks so much for sharing. Great info!!
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Welcome Jan 👍😃
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I think readers’ dislike of prologues stems from writers calling chapter one a prologue when it is not and this dislike is further compounded when the book doesn’t really start until chapter two. I love prologues when they have a definite reason for being there that may not be apparent until much later in the book when the reader goes ‘aahhhh. of course’.
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Good point Lindsey 👍
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I was interested to see that my Prologue to The Man Who Found Birds among the Stars fits all of those criteria except 2 and 4. Of course, all of the book is a “real document,” written by a different author in the 29th century.
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