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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.

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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.

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

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.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible

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.”

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

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?

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software

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.