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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship
Contents 01The law has drawn a line, and it is not where writers assume 02Four jobs, four very different prices 03Retrieval is the safe end because it can be checked 04Generated prose costs you the thing you were building 05Ask…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
It is tested for whether a stranger reading fast, with no goodwill, can stay oriented and stay curious at once, and almost every failed opening sacrifices one to buy the other.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps
Its browser access makes it a sensible shortlist candidate when you want to start drafting and producing book files without buying a desktop licence first.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software
Switching cost is the real price of writing software and it is the one nobody quotes. Everything in this guide, in one app.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
Brandon Sanderson teaches the same mechanism as try-fail cycles, at the scale of a whole plot rather than a single scene, and his lecture on it is the clearest hour on the subject that's free to watch.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
The stronger version of the test catches most broken lies: the lie should still be paying, on the page, in the present tense of the book.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
Some things are true only within one book: what a character believed in chapter nine, who was in the room, what the weather did.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a fantasy novel
If the dragons are in chapter one, the leviathan in chapter three, and the fallen moon-city in chapter five, then by chapter nine the reader is pricing miracles at nothing and you have no way to signal that this one matters.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book
Page count sets the spine width, the paper cost and eventually the price on the back, which is why an editor asking you to lose 4,000 words is sometimes making an arithmetic argument rather than an aesthetic one.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
The versions that work are the ones where the telling costs something: somebody is reluctant, or lying, or boasting, or being interrupted, or telling it wrong on purpose, or has just been asked a question they hoped nobody would
