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Local-First and Offline Writing Software
Three copies, two kinds of storage, one offsite: the 3-2-1 rule, which comes from photographer Peter Krogh's The DAM Book (2005).
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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 › Guide › Track character arcs
Character arcs: want, need, and the lie
Elizabeth Bennet's lie is a good one precisely because Austen spends half a novel building the price tag. Elizabeth believes her reading of people is reliable, and in a world that gives her almost no power, discernment is the one…
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 › Format a book
Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB
Page count sets the spine width, the paper cost and eventually the price on the back, which is why an editor asking you to lose 4,000 words is sometimes making an arithmetic argument rather than an aesthetic one.
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.