I am currently studying on the Curtis Brown Boot Camp ( Two) which is terrific good value – as always! The idea of a Prologue is useful for GCSE Creative Writing and Planning as it allows you to compress your story or to ask questions which the rest of your writing might answer. If you create a library of Prologues then you will feel very well equipped for the Summer Examinations.
Are we forever doomed to repeat the same mistakes?
The stage was set.
On the edge of an old mill town, a young woman with violet eyes disembarked from a train. For the first time in her life, she had decided to disturb the universe as she knew it and more importantly as she didn’t. Yet despite the snow falling steadily throughout the wintry December afternoon there was no one to greet her on the station platform or even at the barrier despite travelling from deepest Cornwall. Fortunately, in her navy gaberdine pocket, the young woman kept a postcard which promised love was never far away. Whenever the young woman faltered in her new spirit of adventure, she touched the ink on the postcard and something resembling courage returned.
On the other side of town, an older woman with no inclination to sleep ever again climbed the rear fire escape of an Edwardian department store to gain a bird’s eye view of the street below. These days locked doors were irrelevant, so she searched the empty top floor until she found the warped oak entrance to the balustraded stone balcony some forty feet above the store’s famous Art Deco entrance. The Italian architect who had designed both the store and the Caged Lift had been ignorant of the effects of Lancashire’s weather or maybe he loved irony, because years of storms had worn away the once angelic features of three stout cherubs. Nowadays, the cherubs could easily pass as blind gargoyles, recumbent still, but decidedly less benevolent. And it was behind this unholy trinity that the woman hid to watch and wait, for surely she’d been lonely long enough?
