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In need of Prologue help!
Hello wrote: "hi ppl, thanks for looking here, i appreciate it. anyway, i need some help with a prologue (lol, i think you would consider this a prologue) for my story Shadows. I've never written one before, (Sh..."oh and it's good i'm interested in reading shadows now but i think the last part when u worte " this is my story" is a little cliche
When I do prologues, which is almost always, I like to tie the end of it together with the beginning. Like you say one sentence at the start and you end with the same sentence.
How about “ somehow I have to figure that out.
for a preface to a story that is really good. It makes you wonder: what is going on in that person's life? The reason we are here though, is not fate. We were created to bring praise to God - and no one does it very well including me. That's what we're here for.As far as the prologue goes, take off the last 2 sentences. Then it will sound a lot better.
yes I could see that happening. and not putting God into a story that isn't going to be religious just makes the whole thing simpler. I've been trying to find ways to put God into some of my stories so that it won't turn people away from them because they're preachy. I don't have anything religious at all in any of my stories right now.
Pardon my French, but balls to them. That's the same as complaining that the the Declaration of Independence mentions god. If it sounds good, keep it in there, even if some people don't like it.
I'm a Christian too, and if you want to put God in your story, then I think you totally should!! Theres nothing wrong with that!
The thing is, you don't have to be religious to mention god either.Arthur C. Clarke wrote "The 9 Billion Names of God", and he was a total atheist. Or agnostic actually. But if it does sound better without it, obviously I'd be taking it out too.
Man, that bothers me.
DragonEyedMovingCastle Maniac wrote: "for a preface to a story that is really good. It makes you wonder: what is going on in that person's life? The reason we are here though, is not fate. We were created to bring praise to God - and n..."I agree, the stroy would sound better that way.
How did the Quran come in to the discussion..???You are Christian right??!!Your..Umm..Holy book isn't Quran...I'am a bit confused here
I know Quran is the Islamic book....Lol..I'am a Muslim.That actually is quite odd...
this conversation is getting really interesting... Thank you for starting this whole thing up Baxter!
I read in some article somewhere taht C.S. Lewis was studying the Bible at that point in time and having a real fight with his beliefs and logic, he did become a Christian later, but My grandpa did the same thing. He was having problems believing the Bible and he filled a notebook full of poems about it.
Mnhm,I guess that is supposed to show what good a author they are....
Going back to Clarke (because I'm a huge fan of his), he didn't believe in any religion, but thought that the idea of God was really interesting.Not exactly sure where I was going with this.
well, people often talk about what they think first when they respond.
Hello wrote: "lol, well than yes i guess you would know that. =Pya, it is odd. the really odd thing is that a lot of authors who do write books based off other faiths is that they totally sound like their fr..."
Yeah!
8D ive never seen this face before!
Sweet! I agree with DragonEyesMovingCastle Maniac (whew!) that minus the last two sentences, the prologue is pretty good. :)
long name I know!LOL my friends here on goodreads just call me DE for dragon eyes
again w/ the faces!!! AAAAAAaaaaaaaaa
i don't know why those annoy me...just ignore my complaints, I like to complain. Post whatever you want *Grins*
LOL I totally will!!!!O.o O.o
DragonEyes wrote: "again w/ the faces!!! AAAAAAaaaaaaaaa"
sorry DE
haha, i have complaints about just about everything.
hey look I'm doing the 50th post. This is the last one on this page!
LOL, ok, guys - sorta back on the prologue topic... Do you ever read the prologue of a story that is a sample of a later chapter and when you come to that part later in the book go back to the prologue to see if they say the same thing?I can't help but do this in a lot of stories an they are almost never the same, usually there are even whole big details in the prologue that aren't in that part in the story.
Yeah, in the book I'm reading-The Various, that happens, I haven't read the part yet, but I can tell it's in there.
I'm sort of reading the Various too, and I think you're right
Hello wrote: "ya, i've noticed that before! or like publishers will put a snipit of writing from the book on the back of the cover to make ppl interested, and then when you find that part in the book, it will be..."Yeah!!
In Water for elephants, the look ahead in the prolouge says that this horrible guy (that you get to know a little better in the actual story) gets killed by a woman he beat up, but in that part in the story, it was the elephant that killed him.
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It tears your heart apart when you lose someone. It takes your heart beats it and throws it away. Just when you think it’s over and you can move on it twist and turns, tugging at you edges. A throbbing pain you can never quite shake. It’s to the point where you wish you were dead. And then……
And then you find a reason. You heart beats faster. Blood pumps through your body feeling you with a tingly since of hope. It fills your every moment. That butterfly feeling in your stomach like when your about to do something your scared of. Just as you get used to the warmth of your cheek death takes you by a spin. Everything repeats. You die. You live. You die. You live. You die. You live. You die…..
Luckily death is my close friend.