[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Omega 019 Oh sorry let me just put every single little detail into the prologue and bore you to death after you know the 'whole story'. You're welcome! It's stylistic, I take not kindly to you criticizing my style of writing. Mine is different, deal with it. Generic Character? This is just the damned prologue and you're already like 'generic character, meh'. With my reaction simply being; "MEH? ARE YOU INSANE? MEH?!?!" I'd ask you out loud but you might be offended by my straightforwardness as I was offended by yours, OH WAIT... I'M SORRY... I'm like... WAAAAAIT until I actually get into it.[/quote] If you can't take critical feedback then you can never improve and thus can never call yourself a writer. Using the excuse "it's my style" does not excuse bad writing, especially when you try to align yourself with [i]proper[/i] authors. You know what the purpose of a prologue is, yes? If you fail to sell your story to your reader from the beginning then there's going to be little incentive for them to carry on reading. A prologue should be treated like any other chapter, in some cases it can be [i]more[/i] important since it's the introduction to the story, characters and narrative direction. If you fail to look at your own work critically and can't tell yourself that something you've done is bad, you will never get very far in producing quality. I'm not offending you, in fact that's exactly what I put in my first post when I rather gratuitously took [i]time[/i] out of my day to try to help you. I don't care about your straightforwardness, I care that you don't [i]want[/i] to see what I'm saying simply because I'm criticising you.