#WritersCoffeeClub Do you have prologues in any of your writing? How do you feel about them? (Cont..)
One poor example I read is where a prologue was in the first-person POV of a character. As a reader, I want to get invested with the first person I meet in the story. I want to sympathise and understand their motives. In chapter one, I discover the prologue character is actually the main villain. I felt cheated and struggled to get behind the book’s hero after that.
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