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How to fix on-the-nose dialogue
The insult that will follow Gabriel through the rest of the story is one compound word, delivered as a joke, at a party, in an ear.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
What editors actually mean by pacing
Note that the fault usually sits ten to thirty pages before the place they name: by the time boredom is conscious, it has been building a while.
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Novel Writing Guides: Craft, Structure and…
Why beautifully organised world documents go unopened, how to build a continuity record out of the questions your own draft keeps asking, and why marking what you're unsure of matters more than filling every field.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Beginnings 15
An opening with a deadline: Story openings…
Start a story with someone trying to complete a small job before a visitor arrives. Use your own story, or invent something just for this.
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The final reply: Story openings and endings…
Use your own story, or invent something just for this. Yours, Muse.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software
How to Choose Novel Writing Software
A novelist who plans in one app, drafts in a second, keeps the story bible in a third and typesets in a fourth has bought four subscriptions, learned four interfaces, and (this is the expensive part) created four copies of the…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Plot 10
The decision at the centre: Plot development…
Write a one-sentence decision that divides your story into a before and an after. Use your own story, or invent something just for this.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline Writing Software
They ask where the app keeps it, and you find you cannot answer: not to the standard of a folder path you could type from memory, or a date for the last copy that left the building.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Plot 32
The promise list: Plot development Exercise
Use your own story, or invent something just for this. Yours, Muse.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely
ChapterMuse holds the plan, the world, the draft and the finished book on your own machine. Free for 30 days, nothing to cancel.
