Reading the prologue of a novel will generally give the reader important background information. From LearnThat.org.
If your prologue is the length of a chapter, step back and ask yourself why. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Once Before a Time, Part 2] Reference
This little bit commonly called the prologue is a gem of simplicity and compactness. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on John's Gospel] Reference
If the prologue is a better hook, then you need to add it to the beginning right now. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: Cut another 1200 words tonight editing t] Reference
I really think this prologue is TOO full of mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum] Reference
So looking forward to this - the prologue is wonderful!. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Hell!] Reference
– A bad prologue is even more dangerous than a bad first chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Quiz: Is Your Manuscript Dead on Arrival?] Reference
The prologue is one of the sections with the most "Robert Jordan" in it. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Leaders, Book 13 Title, THE GATHERING STORM Prologue] Reference
David, the narrator of the prologue, is not David the guy writing these words. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with David Benioff about The City of Thieves] Reference
If this prologue is indicative of things to come we are in for a fantastic story. From Wordnik.com. [13 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy] Reference
The prologue is written by the book's fictional editor, who had been Sarah's editor. From Wordnik.com. [Postcards from Europa (Pt. 2)] Reference
The only reason to use a prologue is to provide an essential frame for the story that will follow. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Therese Fowler, Part 1] Reference
And now, for those what are interested, the prologue is up as a free preview over at Bookspot Central. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
What do you ask yourself in order to determine whether or not a prologue is necessary and will enrich the story?. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Therese Fowler, Part 1] Reference
Erasmus calls the prologue to this treatise on Job "the production of a silly talkative man, neither learned nor modest.". From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
An epilogue, like a prologue, is usually most effective when removed in time or location or characters from the main story. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Nancy Kress] Reference
But to be serious … for me that pre-credit sequence style of prologue is just another form of the slingshot sub-narrative. From Wordnik.com. [On Prologues] Reference
Mr. FOLLETT: Right at the start, that prologue is about a 13-year-old boy who begins his working life going down the pit at the age of 13. From Wordnik.com. [Author Ken Follett Takes On The 20th Century] Reference
… the style of the prologue is in sync with the rest of the book. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Once Before a Time, Part 2] Reference
… the information contained in the prologue is critical to your story. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Once Before a Time, Part 2] Reference
The Play being assured, the prologue is a bladder of wind. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Poetic intensity of the prologue is a promise mostly kept. From Wordnik.com. [ImpeachBush] Reference
Alphonso the First did not disdain to speak a prologue on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbon] Reference
A prologue is a commentary on the action to follow, not a part of it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The prologue, which is a very good one, was made entirely by Garrick. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
The prologue is the utterance of the most intense bitterness and satire. From Wordnik.com. [Claremont.org] Reference
A prologue is a kind of introduction knell prohibition sermon tempest 58 59. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8] Reference
You don't really lose anything by the fact that the prologue is up for sale.). From Wordnik.com. [Storm Leaders, Book 13 Title, THE GATHERING STORM Prologue] Reference
The prologue is taking longer than I thought it would, but I’m still finding my flow. From Wordnik.com. [NaNoWriMo, Day One] Reference
LAMB: One of the most interesting things in the prologue was a reference to Anne Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat] Reference
But what's not in the prologue is the backstory behind why Henrietta's story grabbed me. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Take this preamble to be what Küng calls a prologue functor, mentioning the expression. From Wordnik.com. [StanisÅaw LeÅniewski] Reference
Fifth place Louder called the prologue “one of the most technical parts of the race.”. From Wordnik.com. [Levi Leipheimer versus the world at Tour of Utah] Reference
I’m not really sure of how a prologue is to be executed, but do know what I like in one. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Surviving to Page 2] Reference
The early part of the book except the prologue are the parts I'm least happy with as well. From Wordnik.com. [Review: The Amber Wizard by David Forbes] Reference
Although I cheated and called the prologue chapter one, and the chapter two flashback chaper three. From Wordnik.com. [Mah chapter two flashback. Let me show you it.] Reference
I especially don't understand how a chapter could be bad when called a prologue, but good if it were called Chapter 1. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Front] Reference
This "prologue" is separated from the rest of the issue by a perforated line. From Wordnik.com. ['Reader' Reacts as New-York Ghost Goes From Weekly to 'Seasonal'] Reference
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the lack of a prologue is a bad thing, just...sudden. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirador (Sarah Monette)] Reference
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