: Re: Length of a Prologue I've been browsing the web for a while, but can't find an answer. I normally don't bother with prologues but for this story I'm writing, I need to give some kind of

@Sarah872

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Most prologues, and epilogues, I'm used to seeing are on the order of half the size of the average chapter for the rest of the work so that is the benchmark I always think of with prologues and epilogues.

That being said I've read prologues that only a sentence or two and epilogues that are longer than any two chapters in the rest of the piece put together. So while there seems to be a "standard" both prologues and epilogues are fragments that can be as long or as short as they need to be to convey the information that you think needs to be given to your audience.

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