How to Use Prologues, Part 4, Does Your Story Need a Prologue?

Image courtesy of Tumisu via Pixabay Hi SErs! It's a day of Harmony here at Story Empire 🙂 Today, I'd like to talk about whether or not your story needs a prologue. Here's a link to the previous post on Prologue Dos and Don'ts So far in this post series we've looked at what a …

How to Use Prologues, Part 3, Prologue Dos and Don’ts

Image courtesy of Tumisu via Pixabay Hi SErs! It's a day of Harmony here at Story Empire 🙂 Today, I'd like to talk about prologue dos and don'ts. Here's a link to the previous post on What A Prologue Is and Isn't One of the reasons prologues have fallen into ill repute in recent times …

Anthologies

Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. In my last post, I talked about the advantages of writing short stories and how they could be stand-alone works or part of a collection. Today, I want to talk about anthologies. What’s the difference? Dictionary (dot) com defines an anthology as this: A book or other collection …

Advantages of Writing Short Stories

Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. This post is short and sweet. (Pun intended.) Let’s talk about short stories. A collection of shorts. (Wait, those are dachshunds.) There are advantages to writing shorter pieces of fiction. Not only does the writing process take less time, but many readers these days have shorter attention spans. …

How to Use Prologues, Part 2, What A Prologue Is and Isn’t

Image courtesy of Tumisu via Pixabay Hi SErs! It's a day of Harmony here at Story Empire 🙂 Today, I'd like to talk about what a prologue is and is not. Here's a link to the previous post on Prologues Overview. Below is a screenshot of the dictionary definition of the word ... As you …