#WritersCoffeeClub Do you have prologues in any of your writing? How do you feel about them?
In my recent WIP I have a short prologue from a third-person omniscient POV. It introduces the location and a death, which is the catalyst that brings the reader to meet the MC in chapter one from her first-person POV.
Prologues are hit and miss. Succinct ones which nicely fit the main story work for me. I don’t like ones used as irrelevant info dumps or make me invest in a irrelevant character POV.
Emma Cox /
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