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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
If instead each pass is turning up problems the same size as last time's, the book is not converging and no amount of further passes will make it: something above the level you are working at is still wrong, and you should go…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
You needed a character to get across the city fast in book one, so you let them; now the world contains fast travel and book three's siege plot doesn't work.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
The other side has the initiative; your character is being pushed, and they push back the way that character pushes back, because that is who they are.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
Maps, dynasties, a calendar with its own month names, four pages on how the currency works, the beginnings of a language.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
Show me the scene in your first act where her distrust is correct, where the person she declined to lean on would in fact have let her down.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
"Yes, the newspapers were right" is his thought in his own voice, free indirect, the last thing he says to himself. And then the sentence leaves him.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
First work out which of four faults you have, because they need opposite fixes. Wrong resolution (a scene that wanted to be summary) is fixed by leaping.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
He has not written the sentence "the peasants were terrified of the Count", which is what the infodump version would say and which would be worth about a tenth as much, because you would have been told it rather than having…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
Forster's point was about novels; it works just as well on the four pages in front of you, because a scene has exactly the same failure mode.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
To scramble chronology on purpose you must first know the chronology exactly, and a chart like Heller's is where you keep the true order while the book tells a different one.
