CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline Writing Software
ChapterMuse is a local-first desktop application, so this is written by an interested party and you should read it that way.
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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Best writing apps
Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026
Several apps here document offline working, including ChapterMuse, Dabble and Atticus. Offline drafting does not mean every service works without a connection.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages
First pages: what makes an agent stop reading
An actress picks manuscripts at random and reads the first 250 words aloud; a panel of agents listens, and the moment any of them would have stopped, they put a hand up.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software
How to Choose Novel Writing Software
ChapterMuse is local-first: the authoritative copy is the one on your machine, writing and proofreading and export all work with the network off, and the entire book (prose, story world, images, research) backs up to a single…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration
Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely
Literature & Latte strongly discourage keeping a live project in Google Drive, on the grounds that Drive has converted Scrivener's internal files to its own formats and rendered projects unreadable, with no recovery path where a…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Format a book
Format a novel for submission, print and EPUB
Contents 01Each file has a different reader, and the reader decides the rules 02Manuscript format is a working surface, not a design 03The word count you report is real; the one they used to use wasn't 04Front and back matter…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order
The ranges agents and publishers actually work with: most adult fiction lands between 70,000 and 100,000 words; fantasy and historical run longer, up to around 120,000 for a debut; anything under 50,000 is a novella to the trade…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel
How to revise a novel so the revision ends
If instead each pass is turning up problems the same size as last time's, the book is not converging and no amount of further passes will make it: something above the level you are working at is still wrong, and you should go…
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship
Using AI for Fiction Without Losing Authorship
If a chapter exists because you asked for it, you have not written a chapter; you have commissioned one, and badly, from something with no stake in it.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle
How to diagnose a sagging middle
The other side has the initiative; your character is being pushed, and they push back the way that character pushes back, because that is who they are.
