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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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Historical Fiction Writing and Research…
Chapters across the top, as wide as their scenes, with plot threads and character arcs running underneath.
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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.
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Track Story Items, Relics and Documents
5Write its provenance and significance in the profile tabs.
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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.”
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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.
