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Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?

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How to Write a Good Prologue

The first thing I read is often prologue or chapter one. It signals me in a way that for me personally is very encouraging. On Way of Kings, I went 13 chapters before I really even started to get into it. In one of the shorter Mistborn novels, I will do it first chapter. You have a chapter that's introduced to the character. And at the end of that chapter, there will usually be a, we need to talk about something and then we go introduce the problem.

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