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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Page
See what ChapterMuse does — the desktop writing studio, its story-world tools and its export formats Compare the three lifetime licences — Each licence paid once Read the field guide — sixteen long pieces on the hard parts of…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
This is Shawn Coyne's insight in The Story Grid, minus the spreadsheet: he has editors log every scene as a row and then read down the columns rather than across the rows, because the story-level faults only show themselves when…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Background zen
Each book remembers its own backdrop, so stepping into a manuscript can feel like stepping into its world. ✦Quick start 1Open your avatar menu and choose Background Zen (a book must be open).
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Local first
Updated 4 September 2026 Your manuscripts, your cast, and your whole world live on your own computer — not on a server somewhere.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Analysis
✦The story-world names it reads are used only to ground who and what is being referenced — it judges the prose on the page, not against your glossary, so a nickname or a deliberate variation is never marked wrong.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Ai tokens
Chapter Check — the on-device proofreading engine Prose Metrics and Word Cloud Read Aloud — the local text-to-speech voice Search & Recall across your whole project Manuscript Lens's built-in analysis (World, Loops, Prose, and…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
It is negative progress: it cost you an hour and it made the chapter feel more finished, which makes you less willing to cut it, which is how a book ends up organised around its best paragraphs rather than around its story.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Workspace views
See how planning reaches the page, how the page reaches revision, and how a draft becomes a finished book. Explore every ChapterMuse feature
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
John Gardner called it psychic distance, and defined it with unusual plainness for a man who could be quite grand about fiction: the "distance that the reader feels between himself and the events of the story".
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Snippets
See how planning reaches the page, how the page reaches revision, and how a draft becomes a finished book. Explore every ChapterMuse feature
