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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

This is the question the category is organised to stop you asking, because most writing software is built around one job and priced as though it were the whole job.

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Creative Writing Prompts & Exercises Archive

These short fiction writing exercises practise character development, dialogue, plot and more. Every exercise has a permanent page with Muse's hint and helpful craft reading.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump

Exposition without the infodump

, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)" is a joke and a piece of dread in the same eleven words, and it only works because the reader is holding information the narrator isn't.

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

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

In February 2014 Editorially (a collaborative writing platform with a devoted, sophisticated, insufficiently large user base) announced it was closing.

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

Using AI for Fiction Without Losing Authorship

That is the arrangement I would want, but do not take my word for the boundary of a tool you are trusting with a novel. Watch the network traffic, or ask a direct question and accept nothing but a direct answer.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages

First pages: what makes an agent stop reading

Tension Cal counted the till twice, because the second count was the one he would have to say out loud to his brother. One small act, no danger at all, and already there is a shortfall, a brother, and a conversation coming that…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps

Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026

That might be finding the scene you need, keeping a complicated cast consistent, writing on more than one device or delivering the files your editor expects.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing

What editors actually mean by pacing

Forward movement, pace, and rhythm are words that are going to return often in this book.” By Ursula K.

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

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

Gardner demonstrated it the only way it can be demonstrated, which is by writing the same man in the same snowstorm five times over.

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

How to Write a Fantasy Novel

Or you have the opposite draft: forty thousand words in, and the book keeps stopping to explain itself. A character walks into a tavern and the tavern comes with a history of the guild that licenses taverns.