Is 'prologue' not just a word? Also, could you please read my excerpt and criticize?

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Incredible as it seems, many authors do have prologues. Even though they are hideous — to me, anyway — many people like to copy the idea of using a prologue. Perhaps because they think if they use a prologue they are successful. Many people are also under the impression that prologues actually are supposed to mean a very long rant about the setting and the world. They could use a prologue for that, but it's not very effective. Authors use prologues effectively by using them to build suspense, and to get the reader wanting to read the story. Some are successful, some are not. Even though I hate Twilight, I have to give it props for making great use of the prologue. Putting riveting events in the prologue that actually happen much farther into the book. So we want to read up to those. That is an effective use of a prologue. One that's not and is quite boring is Eragon's prologue, which is basically how the stone got to Eragon, and in my opinion not needed.

Now for your writing. Well, I found an incredible use for my simile. Where it says, "blood flowing from a gaping wound in her chest and forming a bloody stain on the floor" What if you said, "blood erupting from her chest like a blooming rose, forming a bloody puddle on the floor.

Never really found a use for that in my "child friendly" story. I can tell your not a bad writer, good for B&A, but I don't know if this is an ideal beginning for a story. It's quite bland because I can't figure out what's going on. But this is just the opinion of someone on the internet, so it's not like it's a big deal. Heck, if I'd been criticizing Wuthering Heights I would have called it a piece of sh*t beginning, but look where it's at.

Thank you for reading, and Good Luck.

Edit: Oh shoot! I misread that as Beginning instead of Excerpt. Well I reread it and I think it could work for either. However, as an excerpt it's much more appropriate. I actually copied this into a Scribd document because it helps me imagine I'm actually reading a book, and I didn't actually find many mistakes (You should see my writing, it can be pretty scary stuff, looking at it like it's a real book). I can imagine that excerpt in a book, however, I'm not the one you want to impress, it's those hounds called Publishers.

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