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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene

How to write a scene that turns

It's a reminder that the arc is a tool with a history, not a law of physics, and that a book can hold a reader by pattern and accumulation as well as by escalation.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map

Plot Grid vs Timeline vs Mind Map

Across the top, the four or five things you would name if someone asked what your novel is about: not every character, the threads.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

And when a character's reason for not speaking is a long-standing one (a belief they hold about themselves that the book is going to dismantle) that is arc material, the kind of thing worth writing down once in a character's arc…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

Take the word count, divide by the words-per-page of a comparable book at the same trim and type size, add pages for front matter, back matter and chapter openings, then round to a multiple of sixteen: one signature, the folded…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

Contents 01Your point of view is fine: it's your distance that keeps wandering 02Free indirect style is the character's voice wearing the narrator's clothes 03Head-hopping isn't changing heads: it's changing heads without a…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

Rename that character once and the prose, the profiles and the exports all follow. Try this Count your stack, then count the reconciling.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Tension 06

An offer expires: Tension and suspense…

Write a character considering an attractive offer while the person making it begins to withdraw it. Use your own story, or invent something just for this.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

Exposes: the company's balance sheet, an automated moderation decision, a card that expires while you're abroad, an exporter that was never anyone's priority, and the network being down when you have two hours to write.