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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
Your first reader got to the end and said, kindly, that it dragged a little in the middle. You can't argue, because you felt it too: somewhere around the second page, that sensation of a scene idling with the handbrake on.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
The reason matters much less than the thought that turns up about ninety seconds later, usually at eleven at night: is the book actually stuck in there?
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The writer stuck at chapter twenty-two does not need more world. They need to know one small, boring, load-bearing fact, and they need to know it in eight seconds rather than nineteen minutes, because the nineteen minutes is…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily
Practise fiction writing with short exercises, Muse's hints, an optional timer and helpful craft guides.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
01Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg & Mark McGranaghan, Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud (Ink & Switch, April 2019): the canonical definition and the seven ideals used throughout…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Writers whose prose is described as flat are very often writing every paragraph at the same middle distance, so the moment that matters gets no more intimacy than the walk to the car.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
The material arrives because the writer is keen to deliver it, at a moment chosen by the writer's convenience, and the reader (who has not asked anything yet) is handed a set of facts and asked to hold them.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
There is a running event at the Boston Book Festival called Writer Idol that makes this brutally literal. An actress picks manuscripts at random and reads the first 250 words aloud; a panel of agents listens, and the moment any…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Observation 32
First shared 30 Oct 2026 A writer's eye About 10 minutes
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
It is also, by now, more or less the only thing anyone teaches about character, so most writers reach their second draft with a completed chart and no way of checking whether what's on it made it into the book.
