Once there was a little girl who played her music for a little boy in the wood.
Believe it or not, I added the prologue at the request of my editor, and it was the last thing I wrote for the book at a fairly late stage of the process. Nearly every draft of Wintersong started immediately with Constanze telling Liesl to "Beware the goblin men," but some readers at my publishing house wanted it clearer that Liesl had known the Goblin King her entire life.
I was stumped on how to do it without being cheesy or starting with a dream sequence, until I was struck with a sudden bout of inspiration out of the blue. Why not a fairy tale? I think I wrote the prologue in five minutes after that.
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