Timeline for Can prologues and epilogues change POV from the main text?
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| Feb 15, 2019 at 2:28 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Feb 15, 2019 at 2:17 | history | edited | Monica Cellio |
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| Oct 14, 2018 at 18:58 | answer | added | RamblingChicken | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 19, 2014 at 8:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWriters/status/534994453233008640 | ||
| Nov 5, 2014 at 22:26 | answer | added | A E | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 15:44 | vote | accept | Manvi Verma | ||
| Nov 2, 2014 at 13:12 | answer | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | making my comment an answer now that this is reopened. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | Manvi Verma | @Standback: No, I was'nt sure that if I could write that way or not. But, now I will write as per I thought as you all cleared my doubt. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 10:28 | history | reopened | Standback | ||
| Nov 2, 2014 at 10:28 | history | edited | Standback | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 10:21 | comment | added | Standback | But let me ask you: why wouldn't it be OK? What would happen if you wrote it that way? | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 10:19 | comment | added | Standback | @ManviVerma: If I understand you correctly, you want to have the prologue (and the epilogue?) narrated by one character, and all the rest of the book by another character. Your problem is that you aren't sure this is OK, or "allowed." I'm editing the question to reflect this, and then I can reopen it. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 9:49 | comment | added | Manvi Verma | @LaurenIpsum Thank you.. You paved my way.. I was very stressed thinking this. Thanks a lot again. | |
| Nov 1, 2014 at 18:40 | comment | added | Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum | You are allowed to have the prologue narrated by a different character as long as it is absolutely clear who the narrator is. You do not have to change the whole book. In fact, every chapter can be a different viewpoint narrator; George R.R. Martin does this throughout his Song of Ice and Fire books. You can also have the prologue written in third person omniscent even if the rest of the book isn't. Prologues and epilogues, being set off from the main text, have a little more leeway. | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 13:31 | comment | added | Manvi Verma | @Standback:Actually, I have thought that one of the 4 friends will narrate the story to someone else in the prologue. And, then the story will go in flashback. But, If I do so then I will have to change the whole book's language according to his viewpoint. And, that is a very tedious and tough job to make changes in the whole book. So, now I am searching any other idea through which prologue can be defined. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 21:24 | comment | added | Standback | Your problem is that your prologue is written about a different character then the rest of your book? Ok, why do you feel that's a problem? Are you worried it isn't allowed; are you having trouble writing it; something else? | |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 17:34 | comment | added | Manvi Verma | @Standback: I am sorry.. I wrote epilogue instead of prologue. Actually, Its a story of 4 friends which further proceeds with the love story of the main character who dies in the end. And, the main problem is that I have written the whole book as If I am narrating the whole story, but now due to this I feel problem in writing prologue section. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 17:33 | history | edited | Manvi Verma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 14:36 | history | closed |
Kit Z. Fox user5645 Standback |
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 14:36 | comment | added | Standback | I'm sorry; I simply can't tell what problem has you stuck. Your question is unclear. If you'd like to explain in more detail, I'll be happy to reopen. Try explaining what, exactly, is making it hard for you to write the epilogue. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 14:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 12:38 | history | asked | Manvi Verma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |