Prologues and Websites

OK, two topics today:

The first is Websites. I got my address redirected to a simpler web address. My site is now merely www.aliciapaige.com Much easier! That way people can remember it. And it satisfies my sense of order and neatness in the world. lol.

Next topic is prologues. They seem to be out of fashion at the moment. Now, I haven't ever written one myself, but I could see how they could drive editors and agents crazy if used incorrectly, like as an info dump. In my critique group, I've seen this problem repeatedly. So much so that I figure it must be a common problem and I think that editors and agents must be attempting to discourage it by insisting people start with chapter one.

However, if used correctly, why not? What if you have a scary, tension filled scene of something that happened to the person several years or months before the beginning of the actual story? That sort of thing is better conveyed in real time rather than later on in the course of conversation and make an effective prologue, imo. If you do that, would that be bad? No idea, lol.

Sometimes I don't get these fads other than maybe people just get sick of things. Maybe in a few years people will like them again. :-)