Introductions, Prologues, Cast of Characters

[TH1]

When my book includes things like Introductions, Prologues, and Cast of Characters, do I set those up like a Chapter? Or is there a specific thing called “Prologue”?

[kewms]

If you haven’t yet, I’d recommend at least skimming the chapters on the Compile command in the manual. I’m going to use terminology that’s explained there.

In the Scrivener Binder, yes, these elements should probably be set up like chapters. You may want to use different Section Types for them, though. For instance, if you want to number your chapters, but just use a title for the Prologue, it will need to have a different Section Layout and therefore a different Section Type.

[AmberV]

This post contains a list of links to discussion around this topic, and there is a little discussion in that thread as well:

How to make a prologue or epilogue without it being treated as a chapter

Here are some previous discussions that already cover this query, or matters very closely related: Creating an epilogue in the novel template: the short answer is that it is super easy to add an epilogue to the novel template, based on how we set things up. The long answer goes into exactly how we did that. Create a specific subtitle chapter for a few chapters: note this checklist presumes a lot of the background knowledge relayed in the discussion up to that point. While it concerns another…