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Q&A Will my one sentence prologue work?

+1 Galastel. This prologue has no purpose, readers don't care who wrote a book, and you say this makes no difference in the book itself. If it were a 1st person book, this is not needed; the MC wro...

posted 6y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-19T22:13:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/39046
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T09:51:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/39046
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T09:51:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
+1 Galastel. This prologue has no purpose, readers don't care who wrote a book, and you say this makes no difference in the book itself. If it were a 1st person book, this is not needed; the MC wrote it. If it is a 3rd person limited book about the MC Mary, then trying to explain who wrote it is likely to break the reading reverie; and it is unimportant.

It looks to me like you, the author, are trying to apologize to the reader or give them a heads up that you are about to tell a weird story. Perhaps asking them to not give up on it, because it is weird.

**_Don't do it._** Just tell a weird story, or if you truly think it is not entertaining as it stands or cannot be followed as it stands, then fix your story so it isn't so weird.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-09-21T10:24:58Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: -1