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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 › 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.

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 › 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 › 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 › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

The proof is a choice the earlier self could not have made; it simply points the other way, like Dorian and his knife. And then there are the books with no arc at all, which the model tends to behave as though don't exist.

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 › How to write a novel

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

First drafts are allowed to miss these numbers freely: the range is a target for the revised book, and middles usually shrink towards it.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel

How to revise a novel so the revision ends

Carver read the second edited version on the 7th of July, sat up all night with it, and at eight the following morning wrote Lish a letter that is one of the most painful documents in modern American publishing: full of…