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These short fiction writing exercises practise character development, dialogue, plot and more. Every exercise has a permanent page with Muse's hint and helpful craft reading.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)" is a joke and a piece of dread in the same eleven words, and it only works because the reader is holding information the narrator isn't.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The same thing happened at the far end of the scale: the continuity apparatus behind The Wheel of Time (eventually four million words of notes and a published companion volume)
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
The problem is not accuracy: it is that a line whose meaning is fully contained in its words leaves the reader with nothing to work out, and working things out is most of what reading fiction consists of.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship
That is the arrangement I would want, but do not take my word for the boundary of a tool you are trusting with a novel. Watch the network traffic, or ask a direct question and accept nothing but a direct answer.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
Tension Cal counted the till twice, because the second count was the one he would have to say out loud to his brother. One small act, no danger at all, and already there is a shortfall, a brother, and a conversation coming that…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps
That might be finding the scene you need, keeping a complicated cast consistent, writing on more than one device or delivering the files your editor expects.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
Forward movement, pace, and rhythm are words that are going to return often in this book.” By Ursula K.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Gardner demonstrated it the only way it can be demonstrated, which is by writing the same man in the same snowstorm five times over.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
Or you have the opposite draft: forty thousand words in, and the book keeps stopping to explain itself. A character walks into a tavern and the tavern comes with a history of the guild that licenses taverns.
