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happen in the first chapter because you have to be concerned with character introduction and plot hints. But using a prologue, the author can spend all of his\/her time engaging the reader with emotion in what follows. You know me\u2014I’m all for engaging!<\/p>\n
According to Quora<\/a>, some great prologues can be found in these books (and in others, of course):<\/p>\n Kristen Lamb<\/a> has some reasons for not<\/em> using prologues.<\/p>\n And more.<\/p>\n It would be interesting to compare the “good” prologues to the “bad” Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dee<\/a><\/p>\n Naval Maneuvers<\/a>: When a woman requires an earth-shattering crush of pleasure to carry her away, she can’t do better than to call on the US Navy. Sorry, Marines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is there anything better than starting a book and the romance\/mystery\/thrill\/atmosphere is set up well? That can’t always happen in the first chapter because you have to be concerned with character introduction and plot hints. But using a prologue, the author can spend all of his\/her time engaging the reader with emotion in what follows. … Continue reading “In the beginning\u2026there was Prologue #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,106,12,25,233,232,104,113,230,231,176,175,102,130],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dee-s-knight","tag-erotic","tag-erotic-romance","tag-erotic-romance-author","tag-great-beginnings","tag-kristen-lamb","tag-naval-maneuvers","tag-navy","tag-prologue","tag-quora","tag-rlf","tag-rlfblog","tag-romance-lives-forever","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-7R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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examples and see where the author might have gone wrong. As for me, I never skip prologues. I might not read the rest of the book if the prologue is terrible, but at least I’ll have a good reason for it.<\/p>\n