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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818; 1831 text), chapter 17 Look at what that does to the sentence structure of the novel. Before it, Victor is the object of everything: he is pursued, he is bereaved, he is accused.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
You open chapter one intending to look at shape, you hit a clumsy line on page three, you fix it, and forty minutes later you are on page nine doing comma work with no idea any more whether the first act is too long.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
The grid throws away time. The timeline throws away everything except sequence.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
The catch is that these rotate: you choose how many are kept (three, five, ten or twenty-five) and once the ring is full, the oldest is overwritten.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plan a scene
"The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot: the same events in the same order, but with the emphasis fallen on causality.
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Not seven plot structures and not a pep talk: the actual sequence of decisions a novel asks of you, each compressed to its central claim, with the full guide linked where you will need it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
Pays for it in structure: the change-column diagnostic and a harder revision, because the first draft was the outline. Neither column is the correct one; both visit every station, in different orders, and most working novelists…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book
What you control is the structure (this is a chapter, this is a heading) and the reading system draws whatever it likes on top of it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible
The maddening part is that you have a story bible. Sixty pages of it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel november
November01—07Week 1 · BeginGive the story somewhere to go. 11,667 words by 7 November Put a character under pressure and let them make a choice.
