Daily Archives: March 18, 2017

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10,000 Subscribers! A Thank You Note

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This website has hit 10,000 subscribers. This is pretty exciting stuff for me. I want to thank each and every one of you for subscribing and reading. I have heard from many of you who say that you visit on a regular basis to check out new articles. It is a motivation to produce ongoing material as often as possible.

I thought it might be fun to share some of the stats of this website. I’m a stats junkie, but if you aren’t, no worries. Since starting in the summer of 2014, this website has seen over 154,000 visitors and over 360,000 page views.

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Writing Articles

Prologues and Epilogues – Is There a Point to Them?

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by Helena Fairfax

Prologue and Epilogue. Do they have a use? Should they be used? Can you have one without the other?

First of all, the Prologue. Oh, the dreaded question of the prologue for writers. How I’ve agonised over this at times.

According to my useful friend Wikipedia, a prologue is: an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.

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