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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

Open the unzipped copy in Scrivener and confirm it is your book: the right chapters, the right word count, your most recent day's writing present at the end of it.

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An opening with a deadline: Story openings…

10-minute story openings and endings exercise. Start a story with someone trying to complete a small job before a visitor arrives.

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

Local-First and Offline Writing Software

In February 2014 Editorially (a collaborative writing platform with a devoted, sophisticated, insufficiently large user base) announced it was closing.

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 › 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 › Plan a scene

How to write a scene that turns

Every craft book will now say the same three words at you. Goal, conflict, disaster.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Revise a novel

How to revise a novel so the revision ends

But five passes that were all the same pass count as one, which is why writers who have "done nine drafts" are often still on their first.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Sagging middle

How to diagnose a sagging middle

By any honest count you are past halfway, the sentences still come out, and none of the chapters you wrote this month are bad.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

This is the question the category is organised to stop you asking, because most writing software is built around one job and priced as though it were the whole job.