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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The story bible you'll actually use
Your protagonist's sister comes through the door and you stop, because you can't remember whether she is older or younger.
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ChapterMuse Guide: Novel Writing Software
Character Arcs Map a character's transformation beat by beat. Connections A relationship canvas that spans your whole universe.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
Exposition without the infodump
Card draws the line exactly where it belongs: if your viewpoint character knows a fact that gives a different meaning to an event, the reader must have that fact too.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
How to Write a Fantasy Novel
A power is a thing your protagonist can do, and by itself it generates nothing: it is the cost, the boundary, the exception that generates scenes.
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Novel Writing Guides: Craft, Structure and…
How to diagnose an arc that isn't working, and how to know whether the change you think you've written made it into the book at all.
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Back Up, Restore and Manage ChapterMuse Data
Account — your profile, current tier, a live days-remaining badge during the free trial or a flat sage Light, slate-blue Writer, or orange Studio badge, adding or changing a .
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book
Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB
Take the word count, divide by the words-per-page of a comparable book at the same trim and type size, add pages for front matter, back matter and chapter openings, then round to a multiple of sixteen: one signature, the folded…
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The Dabble Alternative Without a Subscription
Software changes, and prices change faster, so if one row is the reason you are choosing, check it on both before you buy.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
Contents 01Your point of view is fine: it's your distance that keeps wandering 02Free indirect style is the character's voice wearing the narrator's clothes 03Head-hopping isn't changing heads: it's changing heads without a…
