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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

Use Compile for the manuscript: it assembles the binder into one document in RTF, DOCX, ODT, PDF, EPUB and several other formats.

• 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 › Best writing apps

Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026

Atticus combines a writing editor with book formatting, customisable themes and EPUB, PDF and DOCX export. It documents support for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook, plus online and offline working through a progressive web app.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book

Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB

Run EPUBCheck on the EPUB, then Ace, then open it in two readers with different engines (Thorium, EDRLab's reference application, plus Kindle Previewer or Apple Books) at the largest text size on offer.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

It is also, by now, more or less the only thing anyone teaches about character, so most writers reach their second draft with a completed chart and no way of checking whether what's on it made it into the book.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship

Using AI for Fiction Without Losing Authorship

This article is published by a company that ships an AI feature, which you should factor in. I have tried to write the version I would want to read before deciding, including the parts that argue against reaching for these tools…

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

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

It fails two and four, and those are the hard ones: syncing a document between devices with no central arbiter is a genuinely difficult problem.

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 › First pages

First pages: what makes an agent stop reading

Contents 01Page one answers three questions, and the order matters 02What gets you rejected is confusion, not boredom 03"Start with action" is the worst good advice in publishing 04Wake-ups, weather and mirrors fail for three…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing

What editors actually mean by pacing

Worse, the same sensation is produced by at least four unrelated faults, and two of them get worse if you cut words. So we need a definition that tells you what to do next.

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.