The Secret Power of Epilogues: How One Final Chapter Could Transform Your Book Forever
The word epilogue comes from the Greek Epilogos: “epi,” meaning “in addition,” and “log,” meaning “word.” It’s literally “additional words” tacked on to the end.
How do epilogues compare to other endings, like afterwords, conclusions, outros, and codas? Let’s talk about that next.
Afterword vs. Epilogue
An afterword is a final author note and is different than an epilogue because it’s in the author’s own voice, rather than from a narrator or character in the actual story.
An afterword may comment on the story or it may talk about the context in which the story was written. However, it is always outside of the narrative itself, and it is always from the author’s point of view.
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