Prologue autobiography examples
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Prologue (Autobiography)
Any well-lived life fryst vatten worth telling and retelling because it can help others who feel overwhelmed and defeated by life. However, it is never easy to write a memoir. The writing of my life story has been almost 15 years in the making!
I was finally able to overcome my years of resistance to completing my memoir when inom came to the difficult decision that some of the people who had caused me great harm needed to be named, the reason being so that they or people like them could not continue to inflict pain on innocent people with impunity. An even more compelling reason was that my story of overcoming would encourage others to move forward with courage, grit, and faith rather than wallowing in self-pity as victims.
My story would not be worth telling if inom simply whitewashed all the ugly things that have happened to me and made up a sweet story. Alternatively, it would also not be worth writing if it was nothing more than vomiting all the bitterness in my lif
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What I Have Lived For
The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human li
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Writing a Prologue or Preface?
It seems that at least half of my writing coach clients plan on writing a prologue or a preface for their books. Before we talk about why that might not be the best plan, let&#;s get clear about the differences between the two.
A prologue is usually used in fiction (and sometimes in memoirs or narrative nonfiction) to set the scene and the tone, establish characters, or provide backstory. In short, it introduces the story that&#;s about to be told. According to Pediaa&#;s &#;Difference Between Preface and Prologue&#; post, &#;prologue is the opposite of epilogue. Epilogue appears at the end of a literary work and functions as a conclusion. It is important to notice that books rarely contain both prologue and epilogue; more often a book contains either a prologue or an epilogue.&#;
In contrast, the preface, in which the author talks directly to the reader, introduces the book itself. The main goal of a preface, says Pediaa, &#;is to provide the read