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Welcome Guest Blogger Allison Brennan --and Happy Birthday Allison!!

Submitted by Allison Brennan on Mon, 2008-09-29 01:00.

Prologues
I was shocked to learn a few years back that some people don’t read prologues.
Why on earth would someone intentionally skip the beginning of the story? I always assume that the prologue is there because the author had a reason for writing it. There’s information in the prologue that I, as the reader, need to fully enjoy and understand the story.
Perhaps some of these readers got burned by a prologue that had nothing to do with the story. Or, the prologue revealed information they didn’t want to know at that point in time. But why would they skip all prologues on general principles?
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