I need a new blog post to convey my thoughts about my progress thus far. First:

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So I went through my prologue and read it over again taking the critical comments into consideration. I completely understand the comments I received about my initial narration. After going through it I picked several lines that made me cringe. I now know what not to do when it comes to narrating. I shouldn't be using the narrator to make jokes or call the punchline before it happens. I wanted to think of it of a parody of sorts but I guess it felt more intrusive to the story then

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When I first wrote this prologue, I wanted to have some fun with it. Turns out that's not something that someone would want to read. The pre-reader I have is a friend so I could see why he would think it's funny. It's pretty much his buddy wailing on his own fanfiction. For strangers it might seem weird or feel wrong. I completely understand this now and it took a couple people to teach me that. I thank them for that.

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