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How would this be different from having chapter one by about their birth, chapter two be about them at 10, and chapter 3 start the main adventure? This is a perfectly normal progression for many no...
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2020-01-03T20:41:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T06:47:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T06:47:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
How would this be different from having chapter one by about their birth, chapter two be about them at 10, and chapter 3 start the main adventure? This is a perfectly normal progression for many novels. A prolog, generally, is not simply an incident earlier in the career of the MC, it is in a different narrative voice altogether. If it is giving the historical background of the story, for instance, it is written like a history, not dramatized incident. Prologs tend to be frowned upon, mostly because most of them are done badly and are a symptom of lazy writing. This is not to say that you can't do a prolog well, but any agent or editor seeing a book start with "Prolog" is likely to breath an inward sigh, and who needs to start with one point against them? Gaps in time between chapters of a novel, on the other hand, are perfectly normal. One might even say they are essential, because most adventures, real or imaginary, involve a certain amount of waiting or transportation that does nothing to advance the plot. It should be skipped, and skipping it create a time gap. Your story has time gaps between birth and 10 and between 10 and adulthood. There is nothing unusual about that.
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2017-07-19T16:05:08Z (over 7 years ago)
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