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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
The chapter ends on a line with a bit of a snap to it. By every test you know how to apply, it passes, and it passes because the test you are applying operates at the scale of a chapter, while the fault you are hunting does not…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
It is an argument about what has to be true of those passes for the process to have an end.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
It is worth knowing that this is how the professionals do it too, and that the professional version starts out looking just as unglamorous.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
You cannot hold forty chapters in your head at once, so you go looking for a way to see the book from above, and the internet offers you a plot grid, a timeline, a mind map, a beat sheet, a corkboard and a spreadsheet, all of…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
The alternative (discovering in eighteen months that chapter thirty-one has been missing since the move) is not.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
That is not variety, it is a monotone pitched at the fast end, and it exhausts a reader faster than long sentences do, because a sentence that is always urgent stops carrying urgency by chapter three.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps
That might be finding the scene you need, keeping a complicated cast consistent, writing on more than one device or delivering the files your editor expects.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
The working alternative is passes with named intentions and protected checkpoints: one problem per pass, the draft as it stood preserved before each, so cutting becomes reversible and therefore possible.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
Not wrong: earned, which is a maddening note to receive, because your protagonist plainly does change: she is frightened of him in chapter two and she walks into his office in chapter forty and says the thing, and you can point…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
By Jo Walton, SF reading protocols The generic advice ("scatter it") is a flattened version of this, and it loses the part that matters.
