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Originally Posted by Hawke  I am having a similar problem with prologues...halfway through my first chapter I have a character "flashback" to explain the current state of the Kingdom and why it is such a dangerous place to live...but it just looks out of place, I was considering expanding the flashback and making it a full prologue, which would give me a chance to introduce the main antagonist of the story as well as a few other minor characters (it's set about 30 years before the main story)
What do you guys (and gals) think? |
I always think it's most natural to have the characters talk about the state of the world with each other to allow the reader to know that way and so it's just part of normal narration. But many good books are written with the history as the prolog (or whatever). I'm not so crazy about the flashback in the middle of the chapter, unless well done it would be very disruptive, and if it's a flashback it might as well be it's own chapter. But if you're a good writer you can get away with anything, look at James Joyce.