A New What?

1977 was a significant year in the world of movies. For cinema-goers, there was a change that became a lasting legacy, one that is still talked about. For one film franchise, a benchmark was set that’s never been matched since. Some of you are ahead of me on this....

Four Things, Apparently

In my recent post about prologues I gave a short list of things that I felt a prologue could do for a story.  However, I also added that my list wasn’t exhaustive and asked you (dear reader) to let me know if you came across any others I could add. Fortunately,...

Three Things a Prologue Can Do

After giving some feedback to Marje (find her on the delightfully quirky blog site Kyrosmagica) about the prologue to her current WIP, she suggested I write a post on the subject.  I suspect my enthusiasm for prologues came across quite strongly. To be fair, I think...