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Oh yes Susan, I agree with you, bookish people revel in prologues... it's the non-bookish people who don't- and those are the people I'm trying to attract because the smaller percentage of bookish people are already spoken for.But are we, as writer-readers, less forgiving than average readers? Are agents less forgiving? I’ve never heard any of my family or friends say they skip prologues, and many of us are bookish people who talk about what we’re reading.
I agree.I adore an atmospheric prologue. It's a mood setter, like a piano chord.
You hit the nail on the head with this. I keep being tempted to do it with my WIP and I asked myself this morning same question. Do you really need a prologue, or do you just need to make ch 1 better?I think, for what it's worth, that prologues are only a problem if they're there to disguise problems with the start of the novel - e.g. that it's too slow. I've been tempted to do this, when I really needed to revise my opening chapters instead. There are lots of great prologues out there!