Should You Write a Prologue ?
Writing a Prologue
There's a lot of debate over wether prologues should be included in books or not. Plenty of readers skip over them. Personally I always read them because if an author has written a prologue properly, then there's normally little bits of plot info in there. Unfortunately, a lot of authors don't write them properly and make the prologues extremely boring and unnecessary. And plenty of authors use prologues instead of properly worldbuilidng because they seem to think that an “info dump” in a prologue is not an “info dump”. I'm here to tell you that a big info dump in prologue form is still a big info dump. Your readers really don't need to know everything that writers know about their characters and their lives in order to enjoy a book, and a bad prologue will make people not like your book. Trust me. I always read prologues, and if a prologue is really bad, I will put that book down immediately.
