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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 › Best writing apps

Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026

Contents 01The ten writing apps at a glance 02ChapterMuse: a local-first novel writing studio 03Scrivener: a manuscript binder you can shape 04Dabble: plotting and writing with other people 05Ulysses: focused writing on Apple…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

Output includes DOCX, RTF, ODT, plain text, PDF, HTML, EPUB and Kindle, MultiMarkdown, Final Draft and Fountain. This is how you get a manuscript.

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 › 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 › 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 › Create a story bible

The story bible you'll actually use

And the template does not have a field for any of them, because those are your book's questions and it has never met your book.

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.