Timeline for Quote at the beginning of a chapter, is it advisable for fiction novels?
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| Jan 4, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | TRiG | @gidds. Terry Pratchett pulls that same trick in The Bromiliad. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 11:21 | comment | added | gidds | Another example is Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, which quotes from a fictional book that later turns up in the story. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 21:42 | comment | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | Following the "comparing your writing to theirs" logic, an important exception would be when you're deliberately reinterpreting old material. E.g. Lavinia - Ursula Le Guin's story based on the Aeneid, or Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley's retelling of Le Morte d'Arthur. Both use a quote from the original as an epigraph, as a way to tell the reader that their work is not in fact original, but meant to be read in light of the source material. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 21:40 | comment | added | Arluin | And Dragonrider's of Pern. Most chapters start with a song fragment from the fictional world. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 21:27 | comment | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | Dune is a famous example of using fictional quotes. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 20:14 | history | answered | Amadeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |