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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel

How to revise a novel so the revision ends

But five passes that were all the same pass count as one, which is why writers who have "done nine drafts" are often still on their first.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle

How to diagnose a sagging middle

By any honest count you are past halfway, the sentences still come out, and none of the chapters you wrote this month are bad.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel november

NaNoWriMo 2026 & Novel November Guide

If you join an organised challenge, check that organiser’s time zone, counting rules and closing time. What happened to NaNoWriMo?

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

In February 2014 Editorially (a collaborative writing platform with a devoted, sophisticated, insufficiently large user base) announced it was closing.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Beginnings 15

An opening with a deadline: Story openings…

10-minute story openings and endings exercise. Start a story with someone trying to complete a small job before a visitor arrives.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

Contents 01Each file has a different reader, and the reader decides the rules 02Manuscript format is a working surface, not a design 03The word count you report is real; the one they used to use wasn't 04Front and back matter…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing

What editors actually mean by pacing

Forward movement, pace, and rhythm are words that are going to return often in this book.” By Ursula K.

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

How to Write a Fantasy Novel

Or you have the opposite draft: forty thousand words in, and the book keeps stopping to explain itself. A character walks into a tavern and the tavern comes with a history of the guild that licenses taverns.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene

How to write a scene that turns

Every craft book will now say the same three words at you. Goal, conflict, disaster.