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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
Contents 01An arc is what a character becomes willing to do 02A want that can't generate a scene isn't a want 03A lie that was never useful is just a flaw 04Proof is a choice the earlier self could not have made 05Change is not…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
The characters say what they mean. Nobody is confused about anything, which had felt, up to that point, like a virtue.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
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…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
A character driving down the road and seeing a dead plover is also action. A character reading a newspaper on the subway is action.”
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
If it says "the antagonist" or "circumstance" fourteen times in a row, you have found the real fault line, and it is not a pacing problem: it is that your protagonist has been a passenger since chapter nine.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › 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 novel
Anchoring those turns to specific chapters (so the arc is a checkable thing rather than a vibe) is the character-arc guide's whole method.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
A chase in which the reader learns nothing they didn't know two pages ago (the hero is competent, the villain is close, the streets are wet) has a high event rate and a change rate of zero.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
Everyone was right, and it is not the useful part of the advice, because it doesn't distinguish between a draft and a lap.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps
Dabble connects a plot grid, character profiles and story notes to a manuscript organised into parts, chapters and scenes.
