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NaNoWriMo 2026 & Novel November Guide
67, so 1,667 words a day is the usual rounded target. If you reserve four days off, 26 writing days require about 1,924 words each.
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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 › 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.
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.
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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 › Exposition without the infodump
Exposition without the infodump
, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)" is a joke and a piece of dread in the same eleven words, and it only works because the reader is holding information the narrator isn't.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Local first writing software
Local-First and Offline Writing Software
A typical desktop writing application (files on your disk, works on a plane, opens instantly, exports to formats other software can read) satisfies one, three, five, six and seven.
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.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing
What editors actually mean by pacing
Forward movement, pace, and rhythm are words that are going to return often in this book.” By Ursula K.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › How to write a novel
How to Write a Novel: The Whole Job, in Order
Deadlines at the scene level survive contact with a job and a family far better than word counts do. How long should a novel be?
