CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The story bible you'll actually use
Your protagonist's sister comes through the door and you stop, because you can't remember whether she is older or younger.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
How to fix on-the-nose dialogue
And when a character's reason for not speaking is a long-standing one (a belief they hold about themselves that the book is going to dismantle) that is arc material, the kind of thing worth writing down once in a character's arc…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
Exposition without the infodump
Card draws the line exactly where it belongs: if your viewpoint character knows a fact that gives a different meaning to an event, the reader must have that fact too.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
How to Write a Fantasy Novel
A power is a thing your protagonist can do, and by itself it generates nothing: it is the cost, the boundary, the exception that generates scenes.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book
Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB
Take the word count, divide by the words-per-page of a comparable book at the same trim and type size, add pages for front matter, back matter and chapter openings, then round to a multiple of sixteen: one signature, the folded…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
Contents 01Your point of view is fine: it's your distance that keeps wandering 02Free indirect style is the character's voice wearing the narrator's clothes 03Head-hopping isn't changing heads: it's changing heads without a…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software
How to Choose Novel Writing Software
Rename that character once and the prose, the profiles and the exports all follow. Try this Count your stack, then count the reconciling.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Tension 06
An offer expires: Tension and suspense…
Write a character considering an attractive offer while the person making it begins to withdraw it. Use your own story, or invent something just for this.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Scene 21
A reason to stay: Scene writing Exercise
A character means to leave a party. Give them a convincing reason to stay another five minutes.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline Writing Software
Exposes: the company's balance sheet, an automated moderation decision, a card that expires while you're abroad, an exporter that was never anyone's priority, and the network being down when you have two hours to write.
