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Local-First and Offline Writing Software
Three copies, two kinds of storage, one offsite: the 3-2-1 rule, which comes from photographer Peter Krogh's The DAM Book (2005).
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel november
NaNoWriMo 2026 & Novel November Guide
ChapterMuse is an optional Windows and Mac writing app; our website’s daily craft exercises are free and do not collect your writing.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
“Thanks to free indirect style, we see things through the character's eyes and language but also through the author's eyes and language.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely
Most tools detect chapters from heading styles; some detect page breaks; a few want one file per chapter. Find out before you compile rather than after.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
How to diagnose a sagging middle
What matters is that the lines sit next to each other and the prose does not, which is the only real argument for keeping a one-line summary of
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order
Both methods visit every decision a novel requires (promise, character, scenes, structure) just in a different order, and each pays a known price: planners renegotiate the outline once the draft starts discovering things,…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
How to revise a novel so the revision ends
A plot summary of a bad chapter reads exactly like a plot summary of a good one, which is why summarising your book has never once told you anything.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
How to fix on-the-nose dialogue
It means the surface of a line and the intention behind it are identical: the character wants an apology and asks for one, is frightened and says so.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Tasks › Revision 02
Say it once: Revision Exercise
10-minute revision exercise. Find a moment explained in both action and commentary.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
What editors actually mean by pacing
Clauses hung off other clauses with which, although, while, having are the brake pedal. They ask the reader to hold something open.
