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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
Matt Bell's Refuse to Be Done (2022) puts it at the hinge between the first draft and the second: map the first draft into a beat sheet, lay that beat sheet against a structure (three acts, braided, episodic, whatever the book is…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
So the aim is to compile so that the structure is legible to whatever reads the file next. Scrivener does not map to Word's built-in heading styles by default when compiling to DOCX, but the machinery is right there: define the…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide
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 › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map
The grid throws away time. The timeline throws away everything except sequence.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
In between sits an asteroid belt of plot templates (three acts, seven points, twelve stages) each presented as the load-bearing secret, none explaining what the job as a whole actually consists of.
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 › Create a story bible
The maddening part is that you have a story bible. Sixty pages of it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship
Anything that touches the prose, the records or the structure should arrive as something you accept, one at a time, with the option to accept none of it.
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.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump
For every invention you are proud of (the calendar, the guild structure, the three-tier magic system, the eleven noble houses) name the page on which it changes what a character can or cannot do.
