Prologues

Some books don't have prologues and some do. You may be asking, should I have one? That is up to              you, I would suggest to have a prologue if the book you are writing is a novel, and writing prologues aren't necessarily hard. All you need to do is figure what you climax is, (that is why I am making this post now and not at the beginning ).

What you have to do is think of a secret in the book that will be reveled later. Sometimes it can be about someone blocking the character's goal, it can be really anything, a problem or a solution. Although when you write it, don't reveal anything. You meekly say it in a discreet and subtle way.

Here are some examples:

	Genre	Climax Action That Is Going To Be In The Prologue	Character Involved	First Sentence Of Prologue (First Person and Third Person)
Example 1	FairyTale	The Phoenix is preparing a potion to kill the boy.	The Phoenix	The night was dim as so as the cave I sat among, stirring the potion as the scent grew stronger.
Example 2	Fantasy	The Fairy in the garden as the girl watched her magic.	Fairy and the girl.	The delighted Fairy took a stroll in the gardens, but I knew I shouldn’t have been here.
Example 3	Action	The woman is about to be shot.	The woman and the murderer.	The guns were out, no way I was getting out of this mess I had started.

Now you can try making a graph similar to this and find out the prologue starting sentence you want to put in you book. After you start to write your starter prologue sentence, go more into details about it. Make sure that the plot is not spoiled in the prologue, but leaves the reader hanging and makes them want more. Isn't that what all book writers want?