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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

Scrivener comes out well on this test: the text is RTF, the index is XML, the folder is a folder, and the export options are extensive.

• Nothing happens until you have a copy you have actually opened
• A .scriv is a folder of RTF files with an index on top
• Compile decides what shape the book arrives in
• Three tiers: what travels, what photocopies, what stays

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

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

By MDN Web Docs, Storage quotas and eviction criteria No prompt. No notification.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel

How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order

The third is exposition (how the reader learns what they need without the story stopping to teach) and it is the discipline your world section is about to make harder.

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 › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

5 spacing and explicitly refuses PDFs, and another has you paste the first 10,000 words into a web form. What is a reflowable ebook?

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

Exposition without the infodump

Perfectly clear, twenty-two words, and it kills the book's first hook stone dead by answering a question nobody had yet thought to ask.

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

Plot Grid vs Timeline vs Mind Map

Three ways of laying out a novel's structure, what each one reveals, and how to tell which of them will answer the question you are actually stuck on.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

Here is the end of "The Dead", after several pages spent extremely close inside Gabriel Conroy: close enough that his own identity is described as fading out into a grey impalpable world.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

Write down every application your book currently touches, including the word processor, the notes app, the spreadsheet of character ages and the folder of reference photographs.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

Willing, because that is the thing that actually moves: not their feelings about the world, but the set of actions available to them.