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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 › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

Open the unzipped copy in Scrivener and confirm it is your book: the right chapters, the right word count, your most recent day's writing present at the end of it.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

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 › How to write a novel

How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order

One vivid scene teaches you the voice, the person and the turn, and momentum survives on visible progress. Do I need special software to write a novel?

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel

How to revise a novel so the revision ends

The reason is that work at each level is destroyed by changes at the level above it and never the other way round, so line-editing a chapter you will later cut is not slow progress but wasted progress.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible

The story bible you'll actually use

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 › Daily › Archive

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 › 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.

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.