Monday morning writing joke: Let me preface this

Let me just preface my remarks by saying I shouldn’t have prefaced my remarks.

My critique group can be rather direct. I turned in the first part of the novel, including the preface. One member said he doesn’t read prefaces or preludes or prologues of any kind.

Another one wrote this on in the margin of her critique: “Your preface states that the characters bear no resemblance to any person living or dead. That’s precisely what’s wrong with this story.”

I guess an epilogue is out of the question.