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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline 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 › Exposition without the infodump
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 › Plan a scene
How to write a scene that turns
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 › How to write a fantasy novel
How to Write a Fantasy Novel
The other calls worldbuilding a disease of the genre and tells you real writers just write. Both are describing symptoms.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
First pages: what makes an agent stop reading
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 › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
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 › Revise a novel
How to revise a novel so the revision ends
He also noted, with the honesty of a good editor, "a certain slight sagging in chapters six and seven", and admitted he did not know how to suggest a remedy for it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Observation 32
A harmless overheard shape: Observation…
First shared 30 Oct 2026 A writer's eye About 10 minutes
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
Character arcs: want, need, and the lie
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.
