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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
The ranges agents and publishers actually work with: most adult fiction lands between 70,000 and 100,000 words; fantasy and historical run longer, up to around 120,000 for a debut; anything under 50,000 is a novella to the trade…
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.
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 › Novel november
Your story may need more or fewer words, and a first draft still needs structural revision and editing. Write toward an ending, then decide what the manuscript needs before thinking about publication.
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 › 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 › 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 › 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 › 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 › Point of view and psychic distance
Under your collar, down inside your shoes, freezing and plugging up your miserable soul … Nothing has changed except the distance.
