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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Scene designer

Plan a Scene Beat by Beat

Action — Goal → Conflict → Disaster, for scenes that drive forward Sequel — Reaction → Dilemma → Decision, for the fallout after a blow Dialogue — Setup → Exchange → Turning Point, for scenes carried by talk Reveal — Setup →…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump

Exposition without the infodump

, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)" is a joke and a piece of dread in the same eleven words, and it only works because the reader is holding information the narrator isn't.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Bookshelf

Create and Organise Manuscripts on the…

In the whole writing studio See how characters, places, factions, items and continuity work across the whole book. Explore connected worldbuilding

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Outliner

Outline a Novel Beside the Manuscript

It occupies the left side of the writing canvas while the active chapter remains in the centre. Unlike the temporary Chapter Outline drawer, it stays open while you work and adds scenes, logical sections, narrative intentions,…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible

The story bible you'll actually use

The same thing happened at the far end of the scale: the continuity apparatus behind The Wheel of Time (eventually four million words of notes and a published companion volume)

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Book design

Book Design: ChapterMuse Guide

Editable formats are interpreted by the app that opens them: RTF and ODT previews read the generated document in a continuous view, while final pagination belongs to your word processor.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Genre › Romance writers

Romance Novel Writing Software

The Scene Designer keeps goal, stakes, mood and beats visible while you build the encounter, which makes it obvious when a scene is an exchange of information wearing a nice outfit.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

The problem is not accuracy: it is that a line whose meaning is fully contained in its words leaves the reader with nothing to work out, and working things out is most of what reading fiction consists of.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

In February 2014 Editorially (a collaborative writing platform with a devoted, sophisticated, insufficiently large user base) announced it was closing.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Canvas

Write and Edit a Novel in the ChapterMuse…

Continuous auto-save — a small indicator shows when a save is in progress, and a live word count sits in the toolbar Closing the manuscript waits for every editor pane to save.