remember- the prologue is the first thing your reader will see.
Your prologue is one of the most important aspects of your story. It introduces a problem and details where the story will go. Not every story has a prologue, but most fiction ones have some sort of a prologue.
The prologue is typically about different characters than the main characters in the main novel. However, the characters in the prologue might appear elsewhere in your story.
To start, try opening the story with different lines. Try something dramatic, like a chase through the night. You could also start with a question. Another popular hook is to open with dialogue. Some more recent books have also introduced the narrator in the story in the prologue if the book is in third person (ex. Death in Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief ). Anything goes! Just try to get the reader hooked from the very beginning. Make them want to know more while giving them a bit of background information- that's the idea of the prologue.
The prologue is typically about different characters than the main characters in the main novel. However, the characters in the prologue might appear elsewhere in your story.
To start, try opening the story with different lines. Try something dramatic, like a chase through the night. You could also start with a question. Another popular hook is to open with dialogue. Some more recent books have also introduced the narrator in the story in the prologue if the book is in third person (ex. Death in Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief ). Anything goes! Just try to get the reader hooked from the very beginning. Make them want to know more while giving them a bit of background information- that's the idea of the prologue.