Can the prologue's POV be different from the POV of main story?

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Let me explain my question:

I want to write the prologue of the story with the narrator in first person with the point of view of the protagonist.
But the story is already written in a third person narrator...
and I have 2 protagonist so its not omniscent.

I think is like a cheap trick do this change of pov and narrator...
I want to write a strong "first lines" (for hooking, you know) and I think is easiest that way, at least for my idea.

I'm so sorry for my bad english,
I hope someone can help me.

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Let me explain my question:

I want to write the prologue of the story with the narrator in first person with the point of view of the protagonist.
But the story is already written in a third person narrator...
and I have 2 protagonist so its not omniscent.

I think is like a cheap trick do this change of pov and narrator...
I want to write a strong "first lines" (for hooking, you know) and I think is easiest that way, at least for my idea.

I'm so sorry for my bad english,
I hope someone can help me.

fiction narrative pov prologues first-time-author

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Let me explain my question:

I want to write the prologue of the story with the narrator in first person with the point of view of the protagonist.
But the story is already written in a third person narrator...
and I have 2 protagonist so its not omniscent.

I think is like a cheap trick do this change of pov and narrator...
I want to write a strong "first lines" (for hooking, you know) and I think is easiest that way, at least for my idea.

I'm so sorry for my bad english,
I hope someone can help me.

fiction narrative pov prologues first-time-author

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Let me explain my question:

I want to write the prologue of the story with the narrator in first person with the point of view of the protagonist.
But the story is already written in a third person narrator...
and I have 2 protagonist so its not omniscent.

I think is like a cheap trick do this change of pov and narrator...
I want to write a strong "first lines" (for hooking, you know) and I think is easiest that way, at least for my idea.

I'm so sorry for my bad english,
I hope someone can help me.

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If you think it would be a cheap trick, then don't do it.

But it is an already somewhat estabilished tecnique - there are tons of books where the prologue has a different PoV from that of the main characters (I can recall a few at the moment: Perdido street station from Mieville, Eragon from Paolini, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weis and Hickman ... ).

Sometimes the prologue is a dream, sometimes it describes something happening in a faraway land, away from the starting point of the protagonist, sometimes it happens in the past or the future.

So, yeah, you can definitely do this.

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This is not only done, but is a staple of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - all books' prologues and epilogues have a one-time POV character that dies by the end of it.

So yeah, it's perfectly acceptable.

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If you think it would be a cheap trick, then don't do it.

But it is an already somewhat estabilished tecnique - there are tons of books where the prologue has a different PoV from that of the main characters (I can recall a few at the moment: Perdido street station from Mieville, Eragon from Paolini, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weis and Hickman ... ).

Sometimes the prologue is a dream, sometimes it describes something happening in a faraway land, away from the starting point of the protagonist, sometimes it happens in the past or the future.

So, yeah, you can definitely do this.

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If you think it would be a cheap trick, then don't do it.

But it is an already somewhat estabilished tecnique - there are tons of books where the prologue has a different PoV from that of the main characters (I can recall a few at the moment: Perdido street station from Mieville, Eragon from Paolini, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weis and Hickman ... ).

Sometimes the prologue is a dream, sometimes it describes something happening in a faraway land, away from the starting point of the protagonist, sometimes it happens in the past or the future.

So, yeah, you can definitely do this.

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If you think it would be a cheap trick, then don't do it.

But it is an already somewhat estabilished tecnique - there are tons of books where the prologue has a different PoV from that of the main characters (I can recall a few at the moment: Perdido street station from Mieville, Eragon from Paolini, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weis and Hickman ... ).

Sometimes the prologue is a dream, sometimes it describes something happening in a faraway land, away from the starting point of the protagonist, sometimes it happens in the past or the future.

So, yeah, you can definitely do this.

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If you think it would be a cheap trick, then don't do it.

But it is an already somewhat estabilished tecnique - there are tons of books where the prologue has a different PoV from that of the main characters (I can recall a few at the moment: Perdido street station from Mieville, Eragon from Paolini, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weis and Hickman ... ).

Sometimes the prologue is a dream, sometimes it describes something happening in a faraway land, away from the starting point of the protagonist, sometimes it happens in the past or the future.

So, yeah, you can definitely do this.

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This is not only done, but is a staple of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - all books' prologues and epilogues have a one-time POV character that dies by the end of it.

So yeah, it's perfectly acceptable.

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This is not only done, but is a staple of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - all books' prologues and epilogues have a one-time POV character that dies by the end of it.

So yeah, it's perfectly acceptable.

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This is not only done, but is a staple of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - all books' prologues and epilogues have a one-time POV character that dies by the end of it.

So yeah, it's perfectly acceptable.

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This is not only done, but is a staple of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - all books' prologues and epilogues have a one-time POV character that dies by the end of it.

So yeah, it's perfectly acceptable.

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