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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

New Prologue

Sorry for stalling and making so many changes, (Mostly an apology to myself) but I feel they need to be done.  I have decided last night to write a new prologue and use my current prologue as a regular chapter, after an expansion of course.

My problem with the prologue is that, as I wrote yesterday, it sets up a mystery, but is answered early on.  The other problem is that it doesn't set up the main storyline.  The prologue I have written sets up more of the side story line between Myra and Yeino as opposed to the main storyline of Eryk.  But I do have an idea kicking around.  I know what should happen, I just need to visualize it better and perhaps flush out some of the dialogue and give the characters a few motivations.

I was actually close to posting my current prologue, but I am now glad I didn't as it will probably be moved to chapter 3 or 4.  As I write the chapters, I find that they are interchangeable, not adhering to a single proper timeline.  This gives the story a chopped effect where you never know where on the timeline you are.  I am going to keep this in mind as I move forward and also edit the already completed chapters to comply with this decision. No one said writing a book would be easy and I never thought it would.  I could put what I have out there, but I want to put something out there that I can be proud of forever.

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