| Re: Prologues, what's in yours?
I use a prologue in my current story set some two decades before the rest of the book. I use the prologue to clarify the details of a past event and to show what became of certain characters that appear later in the book, as well as to answer historical questions (alluded to in the previous book of the series).
I guess you could read the novel without reading the prologue and still fill in most of the gaps, but that's certainly not intentional. If someone chooses not to read it, that's their problem. They may as well choose to skip chapter 8 or 18 - You're wasting your time if you worry about these people. Would you tie up your plot in the penultimate chapter just in case a reader decides not to read the final one? No, I don't think so.
Take care with the whole 'dream' thing though - this is often (mis)used and could put a potential reader off unless pulled off very well.
That's what I reckon anyway. |