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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

The characters say what they mean. Nobody is confused about anything, which had felt, up to that point, like a virtue.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Research

Organise Novel Research Beside Your Manuscript

In the whole writing studio See how characters, places, factions, items and continuity work across the whole book. Explore connected worldbuilding

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Find replace

Find, Replace and Rename Story-World Entries

Search for the name of a character, place, faction, or item and it becomes a rename — updating that name everywhere it appears in your world and keeping your name highlighting in step.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

Contents 01Your point of view is fine: it's your distance that keeps wandering 02Free indirect style is the character's voice wearing the narrator's clothes 03Head-hopping isn't changing heads: it's changing heads without a…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Factions

Create Factions, Houses and Heraldic Crests

Each faction has members drawn from your cast, stances toward other factions, and — the centrepiece — a heraldic crest you design yourself in a dedicated maker.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Historical fiction writers

Historical Fiction Writing and Research…

Chapters across the top, as wide as their scenes, with plot threads and character arcs running underneath.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Science fiction writers

Science Fiction Writing Software

Search and Recall spans the prose, the cast, the scenes, the notes and the research in one pass, which answers most of those in a few seconds.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages

First pages: what makes an agent stop reading

A character driving down the road and seeing a dead plover is also action. A character reading a newspaper on the subway is action.”

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle

How to diagnose a sagging middle

If it says "the antagonist" or "circumstance" fourteen times in a row, you have found the real fault line, and it is not a pacing problem: it is that your protagonist has been a passenger since chapter nine.