Thank you :) It's a minefield out there at the moment, everyone coming up with the next marketing big idea, or lists of do's and don'ts in the publishing world, but in reality it's making no difference on the books that get published, just stressing out new writers like me really :) And glad you read them too.
It’s a decision I am facing with Tranith Argan. Do I put all of Felanar’s childhood chapters in a prologue for readers to reference or not as they wish? Or leave them as they are? Or delete them and just reference what happened in the chapters that remain.
It's a tough one. I mean how much of his memories of childhood come up when he's thinking of the past in later books? A whole prologue of his early life might not draw people in enough, you need the dragon start like you have, it deffo adds drama. I'd be tempted to weave important bits, like meeting Alessa in, to keep a faster pace for the main story arc, but it's down to how you want to tell it in the end, deffo learnt it's not anyone else's decision to make on that one :)
I also read prologues--and I think the sample you provided is excellent. My takeaway here is, "Trust your own gut."
Thank you so much appreciate that x
I like it. I'm also a prologue reader. I didn't get the memo that prologues were dead and I shouldn't be reading them.
Thank you :) It's a minefield out there at the moment, everyone coming up with the next marketing big idea, or lists of do's and don'ts in the publishing world, but in reality it's making no difference on the books that get published, just stressing out new writers like me really :) And glad you read them too.
It’s a decision I am facing with Tranith Argan. Do I put all of Felanar’s childhood chapters in a prologue for readers to reference or not as they wish? Or leave them as they are? Or delete them and just reference what happened in the chapters that remain.
It's a tough one. I mean how much of his memories of childhood come up when he's thinking of the past in later books? A whole prologue of his early life might not draw people in enough, you need the dragon start like you have, it deffo adds drama. I'd be tempted to weave important bits, like meeting Alessa in, to keep a faster pace for the main story arc, but it's down to how you want to tell it in the end, deffo learnt it's not anyone else's decision to make on that one :)