CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book
Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB
What you control is the structure (this is a chapter, this is a heading) and the reading system draws whatever it likes on top of it.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
What editors actually mean by pacing
You rendered something at scene length that wanted three sentences of summary, or, less often, summarised something the reader needed to live through.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline Writing Software
A typical desktop writing application (files on your disk, works on a plane, opens instantly, exports to formats other software can read) satisfies one, three, five, six and seven.
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 › Novel writing software
How to Choose Novel Writing Software
A plotting app is built around timelines, templates and story structure. A formatter is built around producing print and ebook files.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
How to fix on-the-nose dialogue
He says the operation is simple, and then he says it again, and by the end of the story he has said some version of perfectly simple five times.
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 › How to write a fantasy novel
How to Write a Fantasy Novel
One holds up Tolkien: decades of languages before a page of story, so go and build. The other calls worldbuilding a disease of the genre and tells you real writers just write.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
First pages: what makes an agent stop reading
One small act, no danger at all, and already there is a shortfall, a brother, and a conversation coming that Cal is dreading.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs
Character arcs: want, need, and the lie
Arcs that exist to unlock the third act read as compliance, and readers register compliance as flatness without knowing why.
