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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel

How to Write a Fantasy Novel

His real objection is narrower and harder to shake off: an inventory of a place is not a narrative about a place, and time spent perfecting the inventory feels like writing while replacing it.

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 › 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 › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map

Plot Grid vs Timeline vs Mind Map

Contents 01A grid answers where a thread went quiet 02A timeline answers when, not in what order you tell it 03A mind map is for the stage before there is an order 04Choose by the question you cannot currently answer 05Keeping…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

Real headings in the right order, a sensible reading order in the spine, a declared language, honest alt text on the map, and no words rendered as pictures gets you most of the way.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump

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 › 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 › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

The other wrong picture is the biography: the wound at eleven, the father who never said it back, the reason she can't use the word love in a sentence.

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.