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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Manuscript lens

Analyse Themes and Patterns Across a…

Manuscript Lens steps back and reads the entire book in reading order, then reports what only becomes visible from that height: who appears where, which threads are still waiting for a payoff, the habits your prose has settled…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Appearance

Customise Writing Themes, Fonts and Paper

Pick from several classic literary body fonts Set font size and line spacing from the toolbar pills Edit and Read modes each keep their own type settings All type settings are saved per book ✦Try a warm paper with a serif font…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Shortcuts

ChapterMuse Keyboard Shortcuts and Command…

In the whole writing studio No tool here works alone. See how planning reaches the page, how the page reaches revision, and how a draft becomes a finished book.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

And she says, warmly, "Of course, you've no answer": after which she stands on tiptoe at the end of the dance and whispers "West Briton!"

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel

How to revise a novel so the revision ends

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 › Writing progress

Set Writing Targets and Track Writing History

Daily and weekly targets count new prose committed during that period Manuscript and chapter targets measure the current size of the actual text, and can carry a finish date Sprints have an inclusive start and finish date,…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle

How to diagnose a sagging middle

The other side has the initiative; your character is being pushed, and they push back the way that character pushes back, because that is who they are.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel

How to Write a Fantasy Novel

Maps, dynasties, a calendar with its own month names, four pages on how the currency works, the beginnings of a language.

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

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

"Yes, the newspapers were right" is his thought in his own voice, free indirect, the last thing he says to himself. And then the sentence leaves him.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

Show me the scene in your first act where her distrust is correct, where the person she declined to lean on would in fact have let her down.