CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
“Thanks to free indirect style, we see things through the character's eyes and language but also through the author's eyes and language.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
First pages: what makes an agent stop reading
It is tested for whether a stranger reading fast, with no goodwill, can stay oriented and stay curious at once, and almost every failed opening sacrifices one to buy the other.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
Exposition without the infodump
The versions that work are the ones where the telling costs something: somebody is reluctant, or lying, or boasting, or being interrupted, or telling it wrong on purpose, or has just been asked a question they hoped nobody would
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Revision 02
Say it once: Revision Exercise
10-minute revision exercise. Find a moment explained in both action and commentary.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
How to write a scene that turns
They're the ones your eye slides off. What the aftermath beat is actually for is proof of cost.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
Plot Grid vs Timeline vs Mind Map
Any novel with a flashback, a withheld revelation, a dual timeline, or two characters who meet in chapter thirty having each had a chapter one, is running both at once.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The story bible you'll actually use
If yes, the entry is costing you maintenance and buying nothing. The entries worth keeping are the ones about facts distributed across many chapters (relative ages, elapsed time, who currently knows what) because those are…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
How to revise a novel so the revision ends
It is not mine; it is roughly what a publisher does to a book after they buy it, and the reason it looks like that is not tradition but economics: nobody wants to pay a copy-editor to correct commas in a chapter the structural…
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Daily Creative Writing Prompts & Exercises
A free creative writing prompt every day. One small task to help your next story.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely
Most tools detect chapters from heading styles; some detect page breaks; a few want one file per chapter. Find out before you compile rather than after.
