I recently watched a video about an author’s effective use of prologue. You can probably name half a dozen authors that use these first pages to effectively launch their series Though half a dozen may be a bit of hyperbole. Reading six series in a year is probably unrealistic for most people with jobs. Though there are some authors that have put out that much work themselves. One reason I like writing prologues is that you can jump to the crux of a very interesting story. The action scene. It then incentivizes the readers to go through a slower starting story, because they know the kind of action you have planned for them. Patience is a hard virtue to cultivate. It seems a bit much to ask your audience to develop their patience just for you at the start of your story. Brendon Sanderson is a master. Though most of his stories are well paced, but there are necessarily shower parts or character arcs you don’t find as interesting as others. But his prologues (usually depicting an event far removed from the main characters) draw his readers in & make them interested in a book more than a thousand pages long- How do I do That? I think I’ll try to write a scene that is appropriately dynamic, but shows enough to let the audience know what kind of story it is. Hopefully, it will avoid the lonely worldbuilder’s folly of the boring info dump.