S05.38: Prologues & Epilogues in Romance

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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It’s hard to believe it’s taken us this long to do a prologue and epilogue episode! We talk about beginnings and endings and why they exist and why writers should ignore every piece of broad strokes nonsense advice people want to throw at them. Jen says “Prologues are plot and epilogues are character,” and blows Sarah’s mind with her genius (jk, Sarah already knew she was a genius). And yes, we talk about babies. Fair warning! This interstitial idea came from the Fated Mates Discord, which all of our patrons have access to. Join other magnificent firebirds to hang out, talk romance, and be cool together in a private group full of excellent people. Learn more at patreon.com.

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0:15.5	Jen what do you have like one more week and then you have three and a half more days everyone it's memorial day when we're recording oh my gosh and the last day of school is a half day so that's just a waste of a day. No, but it's beneath everyone it feels. You know you got to get the kids to clean out their lockers and
0:19.5	such. Is that what you do? You know, I don't know. I don't remember what half days were for?
0:24.0	Exactly. Well, nevertheless, it's what's happening to me.
0:27.0	What I do know is that as a mother I'm like, oh my God.
0:30.0	Oh yeah, I got to get this kid to school and then remember to get her home.
0:34.0	Like I might as well just sit outside in the front like a weirdo stalker.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:39.0	No, totally.
0:40.0	Well, that's fun.
0:42.0	It is fun. It's very fun.
0:44.0	What else do you do this week? Are you showing the kids a movie?
0:47.0	No, I'm not. We are, you know what, I like to work up till the very end end but the deal I make with the kids is.
0:53.8	You get what you pay for.
0:55.8	Yeah, I guess.
0:58.0	I have like what I tell the kids is like in the last weeks of school like I need to do something every day but
1:04.0	that something might just take my class periods are 50 minutes that might just
1:07.7	take 25 or 30 minutes and then you can have time. Right?
1:12.7	So it's kind of like a little bit of a carrot and stick.
1:14.4	Like, just be good for this 25 minutes
1:16.8	while we talk about totalitarianism, for example,
1:21.7	Stalin, Napoleon, Animal Farm, and then...
1:25.0	So...
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