Prologue autobiography example for kids
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What is a Prologue & How to Write One
Sometimes the beginning of a book can be confusing. Some books may have an introduction, a foreword, acknowledgments, and a prologue before you ever read line one of the main text.
In an effort to de-shroud some of the mystery about a book’s beginning, I’ll explore what a prologue is and how to write one. (Hint: It's different from a preface.)
Note: This is one of many posts on the subject of book parts, from the prologue to the author's bio.
- What a prologue is and its purpose
- How a prologue is different from a foreword, preface, or introduction
- How to write a prologue
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What I Have Flybynight For
Interpretation Prologue strengthen Bertrand Russell's Autobiography
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey
To clear the throat in memoir or not: That is the question. Whether it is nobler to the reader’s mind to have the narrator suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in a book’s first pages or to wait to have the reader take arms against a sea of troubles in the rest of the story, and by waiting, lose the reader entirely?
I’ll drop the Shakespeare for just a moment because this is serious business. We need to talk about whether memoirs need prologues.
You might be in the same position I was a couple of weeks ago. I was working on my new project, an 80s memoir about houses, and I had finished a first chapter. It was pretty good. What to do: Go on to the next chapter, chapter 2? Wait, do I need a prologue for this thing? Is this really the beginning? Does it feel like a slow burn or is it gripping enough that it will hold a reader’s interest at the most important part of the book?
The quick answer to whether or not you need a prologue in memoir is: It’s complicated.
Time is of the essence. Pacing is important. The world, and the reader, waits for no one. You can’t save your best writing for later in the book when the next person to pick it up has only downloaded that free sample from Amazon.
And so, some w