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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Writers whose prose is described as flat are very often writing every paragraph at the same middle distance, so the moment that matters gets no more intimacy than the walk to the car.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors 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 › 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.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › 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.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
"We talk about worldbuilding as something the writer does," she writes, "but it's also something the reader does, building the world from the clues."
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
Twenty thousand words is a common answer for a bloated draft, and it usually comes out of six or seven chapters rather than off every page.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
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 › Create a story bible
You know your world; you have never once forgotten what it is like in there. It is a bookkeeping failure, and it is the failure every long project runs into eventually, because the thing that actually breaks across four hundred…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Beginnings 15
Your words. Keep a useful exercise.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
The problem is not accuracy: it is that a line whose meaning is fully contained in its words leaves the reader with nothing to work out, and working things out is most of what reading fiction consists of.
