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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

Directive (EU) 2019/882, the European Accessibility Act, has applied since 28 June 2025. Ebooks are explicitly in scope: Article 2(2)(e) lists "e-books and dedicated software" as a covered service, and Article 2(1) lists…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

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 › Novel november

NaNoWriMo 2026 & Novel November Guide

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.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps

Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026

Writing apps compared by workflowWriting app Worth shortlisting for Check during your trial ChapterMuse Local-first Windows and Mac novel writing, planning and formatting Licence features; no automatic device sync Scrivener A…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

When the act of perceiving is itself the event: a character noticing something is a beat, and "she noticed" is how you stage it.

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Novel Writing Guides: Craft, Structure and…

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 › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

It is worth being blunt about our own position here: ChapterMuse is built the other way round, as one studio holding the plan, the story world, the draft, the revision and the finished files, so the plot grid, the timeline and…