#prologues

[prokopetz]

There are few greater betrayals than when a piece of media has a prologue with a fascinatingly weird viewpoint character navigating a fucked up situation, then you get into the story proper and it turns out all that was just the worldbuilding setup for a tedious bildungsroman about Some Guy.

[elumish]

My not-so-hot writing take for this fine middle of the night: prologues are virtually never necessary, and Origin Of The World prologues are even more virtually never necessary.

And if you are going to write one, it should be very short and damn good.

[motherluvdofus]

Prologue n.2

[sprite-and-the-bunnydragons]

needed a good writing warmup today, so I thought I’d ramble/make the official announcement for my first ao3 series

Eternal Empire is my loz au where the 3 main players in Demise’s curse go “off script” and do the opposite of what they’re supposed to. Enjoy the dust jacket description for the first story, coming to ao3 in the next several days!

Ganondorf hates how the Triforce of Power twists his mind. He only wants peace for the Gerudo. He’s hid most of his life in the desert in case his existence starts another war with Hyrule. But when Hylian troops assemble a full-scale assault on his people despite his best efforts, he races to broker a treaty with Queen Zelda. If he must sacrifice his life to save those he loves, so be it …

Zelda will stop at nothing to prevent another Curse Cycle, even if it means taking the entire Triforce for herself. If she becomes an immortal queen and rewrites the world to her whims in the process, well, who’s to stop her? Hyrule will prosper as never before under her guiding hand. She gained the Triforce of Wisdom at birth. Power rides toward her. It will soon be hers, she can feel it. The one sticking spot is Courage …

The Hero has never known anything but a cell, the only light shining from a triangle on the back of her hand. Sometimes the Scary Lady with a matching mark comes, screams for a while, and hurts the Hero. It’s getting worse. The Hero’s felt her body less and less the past few weeks, and now she hears voices from the blue-fire people who float through walls. She’s glad to finally understand the nice one who sits by her—a big man with a crown like Scary Lady’s—but he cries even more than before. What does he mean about something coming she must hold on for …

Three souls, bound by curse and destiny, set themselves on a collision course with each other. The fallout will change the course of Hyrule’s future and doom her people to an Eternal Empire.

[hotcheetohatredwastaken]

BDOR Prologue: A Haircut -- A Final Trim (5/5)

They gotta fix Wild’s hair now that everything has settled down. Wild is… conflicted.

“Will all’a his memories come back?” Twilight caught one of the physicians by the arm. They’d already run a multitude of exams on Wild—testing his reflexes, his senses, his memory both of present and past events—to no discernable results they’d shared with Twilight. “Do we gotta worry about this sort of incident again?”

“We can’t know about that, yet.” They answered, as they always did, with all the clarity of a mud pit. “We’ll just have to see—the brain can be quite the tricky thing, you know.”

Read the rest of this fic here! BDOR Prologue: A Haircut

Or catch up with the whole series here! Blood Drops On Roses

@sunny-porridge I did indeed write another chapter to this fic XD

Beta read by @needfantasticstories and @somer-writes

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #3450:

lots of people tell you not to write prologues, so call your prologue something else. no one's going to tell you not to write a literary overture

[lindseybyrd]

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to write a prologue for your book and essentially go: okay so you remember what happened in this OTHER previously published work? Well any inconsistencies are because these are all retellings and oh yeah by the way here's what you missed, mmmmk?

Good for Tolkien.