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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
But what he published was a story (Frodo leaves, the Ring goes to the fire, the cost is paid) and the world reaches the reader only as the story has need of it: a road that goes ever on, a name Aragorn will not explain, a door…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
Worse, the same sensation is produced by at least four unrelated faults, and two of them get worse if you cut words. So we need a definition that tells you what to do next.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
It fails two and four, and those are the hard ones: syncing a document between devices with no central arbiter is a genuinely difficult problem.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
And the template does not have a field for any of them, because those are your book's questions and it has never met your book.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
Every craft book will now say the same three words at you. Goal, conflict, disaster.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel november
The classic challenge is 50,000 new words between 1 and 30 November. You can also make a personal plan that fits your time and your book.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
It comes from a posthumous book by a novelist who died on a motorcycle in 1982, and once you have it, you will not be able to read a page of fiction without seeing it working.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
Nobody wants to be told that at forty-five thousand words, but it is a far more actionable finding than "the middle drags", because it names a thing you can go and change on a specific page.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
The most famous planning document in modern publishing is a single sheet of lined paper. J.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
Gabriel Conroy, at his aunts' Christmas party, is cornered mid-dance by Miss Ivors, who has discovered he writes book reviews for a unionist paper.
