There's a lot of Discussion lately about prologues and whether they should be allowed.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.
May 7, 2024 at 4:32 AM
There's a lot of Discussion lately about prologues and whether they should be allowed.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.
January 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Prologues are fine
I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
March 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Prologues are fine
"should fantasy novels have prologues?"
buddy, i think fantasy novels should have _appendices_.
buddy, i think fantasy novels should have _appendices_.
April 5, 2026 at 2:08 AM
"should fantasy novels have prologues?"
buddy, i think fantasy novels should have _appendices_.
buddy, i think fantasy novels should have _appendices_.
prologues are great, actually. epilogues too! footnotes! epigraphs!! give me a novel with all the bells and whistles!!
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October 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
prologues are great, actually. epilogues too! footnotes! epigraphs!! give me a novel with all the bells and whistles!!
I finished all four prologues and yall this game is GOOOOOOOD
New game for the stream today! I've heard good stuff about this game - it looks to be a solid turn-based RPG 😁
August 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I finished all four prologues and yall this game is GOOOOOOOD
Also I feel like some of them are confusing prologues and epilogues up with forwards and appendices
April 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Also I feel like some of them are confusing prologues and epilogues up with forwards and appendices
I like Prologues. I like Epilogues. I always read the introduction to a book.
But I hate Forewords.
Forewords can suck it.
#WritingCommunity
But I hate Forewords.
Forewords can suck it.
#WritingCommunity
October 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I like Prologues. I like Epilogues. I always read the introduction to a book.
But I hate Forewords.
Forewords can suck it.
#WritingCommunity
But I hate Forewords.
Forewords can suck it.
#WritingCommunity
In the 19th century, prologues served a useful purpose in literature because the past tense hadn't yet been invented.
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
In the 19th century, prologues served a useful purpose in literature because the past tense hadn't yet been invented.
fill your prologues and epilogues with insults directed at booktok. they’ll never know!
I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????
April 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
fill your prologues and epilogues with insults directed at booktok. they’ll never know!
they're means-testing prologues on book twitter
April 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
they're means-testing prologues on book twitter
Can’t believe y’all be out here skipping prologues, epilogues and sneak peaks in books. That’s like $2.75 worth of book you wasting
June 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Can’t believe y’all be out here skipping prologues, epilogues and sneak peaks in books. That’s like $2.75 worth of book you wasting
I *only* read prologues and epilogues. Everything in between is just filler.
April 3, 2026 at 9:44 AM
I *only* read prologues and epilogues. Everything in between is just filler.
My take on the whole "is it okay that readers skip prologues?" discourse is that the government is trying to kill me and all of my friends.
May 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My take on the whole "is it okay that readers skip prologues?" discourse is that the government is trying to kill me and all of my friends.
I will also accept fried onions on my prologues
There's a lot of Discussion lately about prologues and whether they should be allowed.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.
My nuanced take:
I like potato prologues and cheese prologues, but don't like the kind with meat in them.
I like boiled prologues, but not fried. Also, YES to apple sauce, no to sour cream.
May 8, 2024 at 3:18 AM
I will also accept fried onions on my prologues
So many distractions for you children these days! I almost think they might be pulling focus from my ongoing campaign against prologues.
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
So many distractions for you children these days! I almost think they might be pulling focus from my ongoing campaign against prologues.
"Readers skip prologues" "readers skip ephemera" "readers skip-" do y'all just not like reading? Or
May 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Readers skip prologues" "readers skip ephemera" "readers skip-" do y'all just not like reading? Or
Prologues are good.
January 13, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Prologues are good.
I'm fascinated by people who proudly proclaim they don't read prologues or epilogues. These are people chasing stats not looking for a human experience.
If a writer writes a prologue, I read it. If they write and epilogue, I read it. Hell, I'll wade through quite a few appendices if they're good.
If a writer writes a prologue, I read it. If they write and epilogue, I read it. Hell, I'll wade through quite a few appendices if they're good.
June 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I'm fascinated by people who proudly proclaim they don't read prologues or epilogues. These are people chasing stats not looking for a human experience.
If a writer writes a prologue, I read it. If they write and epilogue, I read it. Hell, I'll wade through quite a few appendices if they're good.
If a writer writes a prologue, I read it. If they write and epilogue, I read it. Hell, I'll wade through quite a few appendices if they're good.
prologues can be good
I feel like we need some *innocuous* bookish drama to distract us from the other horrors.
Whaddya got?
Whaddya got?
February 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
prologues can be good
Did you read a book if you skipped the prologue, epilogue, and everything that isn't dialogue? Is the epilogue even part of the story? Are prologues just "author yap"? Are they even "in the book?"
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May 16, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Did you read a book if you skipped the prologue, epilogue, and everything that isn't dialogue? Is the epilogue even part of the story? Are prologues just "author yap"? Are they even "in the book?"
New Video: "Maybe You Don't Like Reading"
youtu.be/gZUCHqotnwA
New Video: "Maybe You Don't Like Reading"
youtu.be/gZUCHqotnwA
prologues are dope af and epilogues are the bees knees and i have them in the majority of my stuff hehehehe
"Readers skip prologues" "readers skip ephemera" "readers skip-" do y'all just not like reading? Or
May 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
prologues are dope af and epilogues are the bees knees and i have them in the majority of my stuff hehehehe
"i don't read prologues, they're just author yap"
you are thinking of prefaces and forwards!!!!
you are thinking of prefaces and forwards!!!!
September 3, 2026 at 1:48 AM
"i don't read prologues, they're just author yap"
you are thinking of prefaces and forwards!!!!
you are thinking of prefaces and forwards!!!!
* Prologues need prologues of their own. It’s prologues all the way down
February 18, 2024 at 7:16 PM
* Prologues need prologues of their own. It’s prologues all the way down
Movies have epilogues and prologues, too... do they not watch Marvel end-credit scenes?
April 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Movies have epilogues and prologues, too... do they not watch Marvel end-credit scenes?