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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
To scramble chronology on purpose you must first know the chronology exactly, and a chart like Heller's is where you keep the true order while the book tells a different one.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
First work out which of four faults you have, because they need opposite fixes. Wrong resolution (a scene that wanted to be summary) is fixed by leaping.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel november
Your story may need more or fewer words, and a first draft still needs structural revision and editing. Write toward an ending, then decide what the manuscript needs before thinking about publication.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Outliner
5Check the intention off when the prose has absorbed it; show or hide completed work whenever you like.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Feature › Novel planning
ChapterMuse is a desktop application for Windows and macOS, with the manuscript and story-world data stored on your computer.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
If instead each pass is turning up problems the same size as last time's, the book is not converging and no amount of further passes will make it: something above the level you are working at is still wrong, and you should go…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Character arcs
Drop an arc-beat card onto a scene and edit it there, and the change shows up in the Arc Map — one source of truth for the moment.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Canvas
Click anywhere and start typing — your work saves itself continuously. ✦Quick start 1Open a book from your Bookshelf.
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Only the features that call out to cloud AI cost anything, everything else runs on your own computer and is free, including the fiction-tuned proofreader and the read-aloud voice.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
Forster's point was about novels; it works just as well on the four pages in front of you, because a scene has exactly the same failure mode.
