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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Characters

Create Character Profiles for Your Novel

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 › Revise a novel

How to revise a novel so the revision ends

Matt Bell's Refuse to Be Done (2022) puts it at the hinge between the first draft and the second: map the first draft into a beat sheet, lay that beat sheet against a structure (three acts, braided, episodic, whatever the book is…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Fantasy writers

Fantasy Writing and Worldbuilding Software

A Plot Grid puts each thread against the chapters so you can see the nine-chapter stretch where the rebellion quietly stops happening.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Mystery thriller writers

Mystery and Thriller Writing Software

A Plot Grid gives each clue, suspect and red herring its own thread across the chapters, so the debts are visible as a shape.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Export

Export a Novel to DOCX, PDF and EPUB

Manuscript — Word (DOCX), reading PDF, EPUB, press-ready Print Edition PDF, Markdown, RTF, ODT, LaTeX, or plain text Story World dossiers — Characters, Locations, Factions, and Items as Word, PDF, or Excel (Excel spreads across…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Science fiction writers

Science Fiction Writing Software

The Plot Grid shows when the reader learns about them. Keeping those apart is what lets you scramble the telling deliberately rather than by accident, and it is the only way to catch the quiet errors: the character who is…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Locations

Build and Track Story Locations

Because locations are shared across your books, a single entry gathers every scene that happens there, wherever it appears in the story.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Storyboard

Turn a Planned Scene into a Storyboard

It is a planning aid rather than a finished artwork — a way to see whether a sequence actually stages, and where a beat is still missing its picture.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map

Plot Grid vs Timeline vs Mind Map

You cannot hold forty chapters in your head at once, so you go looking for a way to see the book from above, and the internet offers you a plot grid, a timeline, a mind map, a beat sheet, a corkboard and a spreadsheet, all of…