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These short fiction writing exercises practise character development, dialogue, plot and more. Every exercise has a permanent page with Muse's hint and helpful craft reading.
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A central Tools strip holds Read / Edit / Focus mode, To-dos, Chapter Notes, the Outliner button, the workspace-view picker, your type controls (font, size, spacing), bold / italic / em dash, copy & paste, a "highlight…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Scene designer
Action — Goal → Conflict → Disaster, for scenes that drive forward Sequel — Reaction → Dilemma → Decision, for the fallout after a blow Dialogue — Setup → Exchange → Turning Point, for scenes carried by talk Reveal — Setup →…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)" is a joke and a piece of dread in the same eleven words, and it only works because the reader is holding information the narrator isn't.
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In the whole writing studio See how characters, places, factions, items and continuity work across the whole book. Explore connected worldbuilding
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The same thing happened at the far end of the scale: the continuity apparatus behind The Wheel of Time (eventually four million words of notes and a published companion volume)
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Editable formats are interpreted by the app that opens them: RTF and ODT previews read the generated document in a continuous view, while final pagination belongs to your word processor.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Romance writers
The Scene Designer keeps goal, stakes, mood and beats visible while you build the encounter, which makes it obvious when a scene is an exchange of information wearing a nice outfit.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
The problem is not accuracy: it is that a line whose meaning is fully contained in its words leaves the reader with nothing to work out, and working things out is most of what reading fiction consists of.
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What you need doing ChapterMuse Atticus Plan the book Outliner, Plot Grid, Chronos, Mind Map and Scene Designer Chapter organisation and goal tracking Story bible Characters, locations, factions and items as records linked into…
