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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.
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Novel Writing Guides: Craft, Structure and…
Not seven plot structures and not a pep talk: the actual sequence of decisions a novel asks of you, each compressed to its central claim, with the full guide linked where you will need it.
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Exposition without the infodump
Stoker has given you a crowd that is frightened, five words in three languages, their translations, and a narrator who has filed the lot under local colour.
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Using AI for Fiction Without Losing Authorship
The fourth is a different act, and it deserves its own section rather than a shrug.
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The story bible you'll actually use
“When I'm copyediting, I keep an open Word document into which I jot notes about anything I think may be of interest as I keep track of chronology, logistics, plot, and personal details.”
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Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
Thirty-three words, three distances, and the shape of the entire story is already in them. So when is a filter right?
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Local-First and Offline Writing Software
A typical desktop writing application (files on your disk, works on a plane, opens instantly, exports to formats other software can read) satisfies one, three, five, six and seven.
