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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Revision 02

Say it once: Revision Exercise

Use a character from your novel, try a short story idea or start with a blank page. Each prompt includes a hint and links to craft guidance.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

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.

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.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

Series title, frontispiece or two-page title on the facing verso, then the title page. Copyright page: rights, edition and printing history, ISBN, cataloguing data, credits, disclaimers.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene

How to write a scene that turns

By Robert McKee, Story Strip the vocabulary out and it says: something that mattered was in one state at the top of the scene and is in a different state at the bottom.