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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Plot grid
Updated 4 September 2026 The Plot Grid lays your book out as a spreadsheet: each chapter is a row, and each column isa thread you care about — a synopsis, a subplot, stakes, a point of view.
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 › Help › Scene designer
A standing band above the strip holds the scene's conditions and its cast — the characters and items in play Attach sensory, subtext, or set-dressing cards to a shot; they ride in the gutter beside it The shelf keeps your craft…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
Back up three chapters in Frankenstein, to the moment that makes the wedding-night threat possible at all. Victor has spent the novel running: from the creature, from what he made, from Geneva, into the mountains.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Character arcs
ChapterMuse lays down a suggested sequence of beats you can keep, rename, or replace, then you fill each beat with what happens, what the character believes, what they choose, and what it costs.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Export
Export your manuscript for submission or for print, your characters and world as reference documents, Scene Designer boards as printable storyboards, or the Outliner as a portable planning structure.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Chronos
4Drag an arc beat onto a chapter — or onto a specific scene — to anchor where that turn happens. 5Use Isolate to show only what a single character touches.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Characters
The library is a grid of character cards; click one to open its sheet on the right and fill it in. Everything saves as you go, and an untouched character quietly removes itself if you close it without adding anything.
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 › Help › Revisions
Choose a structural, plot, character, scene, dialogue, line, copyedit, proof, or custom pass Each pass belongs to the chapter open when it begins; different chapters can have their own open passes at the same time Use All…
