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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 › 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 › Create a story bible
The story bible you'll actually use
The same thing happened at the far end of the scale: the continuity apparatus behind The Wheel of Time (eventually four million words of notes and a published companion volume)
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext
How to fix on-the-nose dialogue
The problem is not accuracy: it is that a line whose meaning is fully contained in its words leaves the reader with nothing to work out, and working things out is most of what reading fiction consists of.
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 › 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 › Daily › Tasks › Beginnings 15
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 › 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.
