CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
How to diagnose a sagging middle
By any honest count you are past halfway, the sentences still come out, and none of the chapters you wrote this month are bad.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline Writing Software
A typical desktop writing application (files on your disk, works on a plane, opens instantly, exports to formats other software can read) satisfies one, three, five, six and seven.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
What editors actually 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 › How to write a novel
How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order
Deadlines at the scene level survive contact with a job and a family far better than word counts do. How long should a novel be?
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
Should I remove all filter words like "she saw" and "she felt"? No: count them before you cut them.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
First pages: what makes an agent stop reading
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
Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026
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.
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Creative Writing Prompts & Exercises Archive
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 › Ai without losing authorship
Using AI for Fiction 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 › How to write a fantasy novel
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.
