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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Feature › Novel planning

Novel Planning and Outlining Software

Plan a novel with an outliner, plot grid, story timeline, mind map, scene designer and storyboard connected to the manuscript.

• See the whole book without leaving the chapter.
• Use the shape that answers the question.
• Turn intention into a sequence of beats.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Plot grid

Track Plots and Character Arcs in a Plot Grid

Updated 4 September 2026 The Plot Grid lays your book out as a spreadsheet: each chapter is a row, and each column isa thread you care about — a synopsis, a subplot, stakes, a point of view.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Outliner

Outline a Novel Beside the Manuscript

Updated 4 September 2026 Open Outliner from its button in the main toolbar when you want to plan and write at the same time.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Chronos

Build a Novel Timeline with Chronos

3Read down: Main plot, then your subplots, then one lane for each character arc. 4Drag an arc beat onto a chapter — or onto a specific scene — to anchor where that turn happens.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Scene designer

Plan a Scene Beat by Beat

A standing band above the strip holds the scene's conditions and its cast — the characters and items in play Attach sensory, subtext, or set-dressing cards to a shot; they ride in the gutter beside it The shelf keeps your craft…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Character arcs

Map Character Arcs Across a Novel

ChapterMuse lays down a suggested sequence of beats you can keep, rename, or replace, then you fill each beat with what happens, what the character believes, what they choose, and what it costs.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Todos

To-dos: ChapterMuse Guide

A column of sticky notes beside the manuscript — the same list the Outliner keeps, drawn as cards. Updated 4 September 2026 Open To-dos from the main toolbar and a column of coloured square cards appears down the left of the page.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Characters

Create Character Profiles for Your Novel

The library is a grid of character cards; click one to open its sheet on the right and fill it in. Everything saves as you go, and an untouched character quietly removes itself if you close it without adding anything.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Navigation

Navigate the ChapterMuse Desktop App

Story — your world: Characters, Profiles, Connections, Locations, Factions, Items, plus Plot Grid, Chronos, Mind Map, and Scene Designer Manuscript — working with the text: Search, Find & Replace, Glossary & Name Links, Snippets,…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Help › Locations

Build and Track Story Locations

Because locations are shared across your books, a single entry gathers every scene that happens there, wherever it appears in the story.