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Originally Posted by Green  People who don't read prologues are morons. Why choose to read a book, and then arbitrarily refuse to read it from the beginning?
If you want to write a prologue, then write it. Put in it whatever you want, provided it works, and have fun. If some idiot decides not to read it because they're lazy, then screw them. Their loss. |
I like you Green!
I agree totally. It's the prologue in books which entices me to read it. (And how I decided upon my name Alia for this forum!) If they can't read the WHOLE book then it's their loss.
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Incidentally, that novel finishes with an epilogue which returns the man to the scene of the prologue, only in entirely different cirumstances. Sort of rounds the book off nicely, I like to think!
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Anthony... I've seen this done and have always enjoyed books like this. I had the idea for my story to make the epilogue the prologue for the next story, or something like that.
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Alia, just go with your idea. And worry about if the dream is the first chapter or a prologue later .
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Scalem X, to be honest this is exactly what I did. I continued the story as am worrying about other things at the moment. Yet, it still haunts me like bad cheese.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and ideas. This was very helpful.