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Exposition without the infodump
Perfectly clear, twenty-two words, and it kills the book's first hook stone dead by answering a question nobody had yet thought to ask.
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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 › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
If you are writing at rung three or four and a sentence sounds like you rather than like your character, that is not a voice failure to be fixed with more colourful adjec
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order
First drafts are allowed to miss these numbers freely: the range is a target for the revised book, and middles usually shrink towards it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
How to diagnose a sagging middle
The repair is usually at the front of the book, which is excellent news, because rewriting six thousand words of opening is a weekend and inventing eight chapters of plot is a season.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
How to write a scene that turns
Every craft book will now say the same three words at you. Goal, conflict, disaster.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
How to Write a Fantasy Novel
But what he published was a story (Frodo leaves, the Ring goes to the fire, the cost is paid) and the world reaches the reader only as the story has need of it: a road that goes ever on, a name Aragorn will not explain, a door…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
How to revise a novel so the revision ends
Across two rounds of line-editing he cut the book's word count by fifty-five per cent. "A Small, Good Thing" went from thirty-seven typescript pages to twelve and was renamed "The Bath".
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Beginnings 15
An opening with a deadline: Story openings…
Your words. Keep a useful exercise.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
How to fix on-the-nose dialogue
Not the character's goal in the book. Not even their goal in the scene.
