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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Writers whose prose is described as flat are very often writing every paragraph at the same middle distance, so the moment that matters gets no more intimacy than the walk to the car.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
The material arrives because the writer is keen to deliver it, at a moment chosen by the writer's convenience, and the reader (who has not asked anything yet) is handed a set of facts and asked to hold them.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
There is a running event at the Boston Book Festival called Writer Idol that makes this brutally literal. An actress picks manuscripts at random and reads the first 250 words aloud; a panel of agents listens, and the moment any…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Book design
Preset — one look for the whole book, and a place to save your own Paragraphs — first-line indent, space between paragraphs, how a scene break is marked, and whether the first line after one is indented And these sections — when…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Fantasy writers
Every fantasy writer knows the specific dread of the half-remembered rule. You wrote, somewhere, that iron does something to the fae.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Modes
Edit mode is where you write, with block menus and formatting at hand. Read mode strips all of that away and typesets your prose like a finished book — serif type, proper indents, no controls — so you can judge the rhythm of what…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Historical fiction writers
Citations provide a route back to the source; the writer remains responsible for reading it and deciding what it means. 05Which of these need a particular licence?
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Snippets
See how planning reaches the page, how the page reaches revision, and how a draft becomes a finished book. Explore every ChapterMuse feature
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Science fiction writers
Research, the glossary and Museiki start at Writer at £36. Items, factions, characters, locations and Chronos come with Studio at £48.
