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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel

How to Write a Fantasy Novel

What the draft actually requires is smaller than the folder ever admits: a person with a want, the place where the want goes wrong, and enough of the near world for the first three chapters to stand on.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

A chapter heading should be a real heading element, because that is what the navigation document, the reader's "go to chapter" control and a screen reader all run on: not a paragraph you made 24 points and bold.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages

First pages: what makes an agent stop reading

Cricket Freeman of the August Agency has a version on her list (the main character who dies at the end of chapter one) and the complaint is the same: an event with no accumulated meaning is a loud noise, and loud noises stop…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship

Using AI for Fiction Without Losing Authorship

I have tried to write the version I would want to read before deciding, including the parts that argue against reaching for these tools at all.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene

How to write a scene that turns

The other common version is the mouthpiece scene, where one character explains the situation to another character who mostly asks clarifying questions.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

The price triples on renewal and the alternative is a migration you don't have time for. A feature you built a habit on gets retired.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

Go through it and look at what each change actually buys, because the point is not that the second version is more artful.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

If our Word file arrives with the chapter breaks in the wrong place, you want to find that out in week one of a trial, not the night before a submission.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel november

NaNoWriMo 2026 & Novel November Guide

23,334 words by 14 November If each chapter repeats the same obstacle, change what the character risks or what they know.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

A novel needs all five, and it needs them chosen, which is a different activity from picking a point of view in chapter one and hoping.