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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 › Best writing apps
Best Writing Apps for Novelists in 2026
That might be finding the scene you need, keeping a complicated cast consistent, writing on more than one device or delivering the files your editor expects.
CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance
Point of view: psychic distance is a dial
Gardner demonstrated it the only way it can be demonstrated, which is by writing the same man in the same snowstorm five times over.
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.
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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
Here is Jonathan Harker at the inn at Bistritz, doing what a solicitor does with material he doesn't understand: writing it down.
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 › Sagging middle
How to diagnose a sagging middle
Visibly is the load-bearing word there: thematic work is invisible to a first-time reader, and the first-time reader is who you are diagnosing for.
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.
