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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 › 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 › Format a book
Contents 01Each file has a different reader, and the reader decides the rules 02Manuscript format is a working surface, not a design 03The word count you report is real; the one they used to use wasn't 04Front and back matter…
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 › 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 › What editors mean by pacing
Contents 01Pacing is the rate at which the reader's understanding changes 02Crowding and leaping is the whole engine 03Scene and summary is the lever you are not pulling 04The reader feels rhythm in their body before they notice…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
And she says, warmly, "Of course, you've no answer": after which she stands on tiptoe at the end of the dance and whispers "West Briton!"
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 › Sagging middle
The other side has the initiative; your character is being pushed, and they push back the way that character pushes back, because that is who they are.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
Maps, dynasties, a calendar with its own month names, four pages on how the currency works, the beginnings of a language.
