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It looks like it might do.
Sep. 16th, 2017
For a novel that I'm working on, how will it sell if the preface is awesome and the first chapter is also awesome, but the second chapter isn't that good? It focuses on introductions.
If you can write an awesome preface (prologue?) and an awesome first chapter, then you should be writing an awesome second chapter too.
I don’t understand why the second chapter needs to focus on introductions or if it does why these would necessarily be less interesting than the book’s beginning. If you can’t work out how to change your book so that it is all awesome then it’s worth getting some feedback on it, maybe from a critique group.
It’s too late after you’ve published something - people will think this is your usual standard of work and probably avoid your future books.
If you’re going the traditional publishing route then I doubt very much that the book will be even get as far as being published if it has parts that just aren’t “that good”.
If you can write an awesome preface (prologue?) and an awesome first chapter, then you should be writing an awesome second chapter too.
I don’t understand why the second chapter needs to focus on introductions or if it does why these would necessarily be less interesting than the book’s beginning. If you can’t work out how to change your book so that it is all awesome then it’s worth getting some feedback on it, maybe from a critique group.
It’s too late after you’ve published something - people will think this is your usual standard of work and probably avoid your future books.
If you’re going the traditional publishing route then I doubt very much that the book will be even get as far as being published if it has parts that just aren’t “that good”.