Confusing, to say the least, this Prologue thing.
Some say that prologue is completely unnecessary, that the story should begin somewhere in the middle. You could say that there is a place within the story itself that you could position the same information to allow for a slower progression of facts. Some even say that a prologue serves more like an information dump.
What do you think?
Should the narrative not be front-loaded, for running the danger of giving away too much?
Talk about feeling cheated. I don’t have the answers for these questions. But what I do know is that you don’t want your prologue to be too obvious.
You want to leave some room for guessing!
What do you think?
Monday, July 26, 2010
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Prologues are hard. You have to catch the reader's interest right away in it. And then in the first chapter, you have it to do all over again.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can tell, prologues work well when there's a significant gap in time, or when there's a significant gap in the action.