suzakugaiden

My NaNo's presented me with an interesting case, that being that the first 50000-odd words of my novel are, in a large way, prologuial, given the main's passivity and the fact that it's mostly build up to the main plot. Whatever the heck that is.

Anyway, so it's thirty chapters. However, I was considering being annoying and just calling it Prologue or Chapter 1, and dubbing the 30 chapters I've got subchapters or something.

I aware that this actually changes nothing. I'm just wondering how people will react.

Kimahri

I don't think anyone would be annoyed if you did that.

kimahri

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Rob

Hard to say without reading it, but 50,000 words of prologue (if I've understood you correctly), with a passive main character, is probably not going to win you many friends. Besides which, if they're intended to be main story chapters, you ought to call them such. But consider how the reader will feel about the story, and get some feedback on it.

Cheers,
Omnius

Ralizah

Weird, that's the way I write too (chapters with large amounts of subchapters under their belts).
I like it, personally. What it allows me to do is to write large chapters exploring complicated themes without forcing the reader to read on to a stopping point or otherwise throw the book down in frustration.

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suzakugaiden

I've also toyed with the idea of intentionally misnumbering chapters. Or sticking prologues in the middle of a book. Stuffs like that.

Stewart

Have you ever heard of Alasdair Gray's Lanark? It's structure is:

• Book Three
• Prologue
• Book One
• Book Two
• Epilogue
• Book Four

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