A WORKSPACE FOR YOUR WHOLE NOVEL
Write your novel chapter by chapter. Keep your outline, characters and drafts in one project, ready for the next writing session.
Explore chapters, story materials and suggested edits beside the draft in this interactive demo.
Chapter Draft
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A lighthouse keeper receives a letter in her own handwriting, dated ten years from now. Help me plan the mystery and its opening chapter…
Your novel project is ready, with four empty folders for your notes. Shall we start with the keeper’s character notes and the rules of the letter?
Call her Wren. Outline the mystery, and keep who sent the letter secret until the last chapter.
Wren’s notes are in Characters, and a three-act outline is in Story Outline. Where should chapter one open?
Chapter 1 · The supply boat
The supply boat came on Thursdays. Wren counted the crates twice, the way the old keeper had taught her.
She stood on the jetty and watched the weather. The letter was in the last crate.
She opened them there on the jetty. The letter was in the last crate.
It was addressed in her own hand.
Chapter one went straight into the empty chapter, told from Wren’s side.
The middle drags. Tighten it.
Sample novel; interface drawn from current Muses components.
Keep your chapters together with saved drafts. Open the project next time, choose the chapter you want to work on and pick up where you left off.
A novel writing assistant is more useful with your story at hand. Keep character notes, worldbuilding and your outline beside the manuscript, and ask the AI to read the relevant materials and earlier chapters before drafting the next scene.
Review proposed changes where they belong in the text. Accept or reject edits, refine a passage yourself and return to saved versions when you need to.
Wondering where to start, or stuck halfway through? Choose one part to work on. These example requests move your novel forward in the same project.
Try: “Help me outline a mystery about a lighthouse keeper. Map the main turns and keep the ending unresolved until the final chapter.” Save the outline and character notes as materials you can revise.
Try: “Read the outline and Wren’s character notes, then draft her arrival at the lighthouse in close third person.” Give the scene a goal, review the prose and shape the opening in the editor.
Try: “Read the outline and the last chapter. Wren has found the letter, but I’m stuck on what she does next. Suggest three choices and what each would cost her.” Choose a direction, then ask the AI to draft the scene using your character notes.
Try: “Read this chapter and suggest edits where the pacing slows.” Review edits in place, then use the web version to export a chapter or the project as DOCX, Markdown, TXT, PDF or EPUB; separate chapter files can be packaged as a ZIP.
Yes. Start with a character, a problem or an ending you want to explore. Describe it here, then work with the AI in your novel project to shape an outline and choose an opening scene. Write and revise one chapter at a time, keeping your story notes beside the manuscript.
Yes. Plan the story in a novel project, then draft it one chapter at a time. Before each new chapter, the AI can read your outline, your character notes and the chapters before it. Worldbuilding and character notes sit beside the manuscript, and you can revise over as many sessions as the novel needs. When the AI edits text you have already written, each change appears as a suggestion you accept or reject.
Muses opens a novel project where you can develop your idea with AI. Start by exploring your characters, planning the outline or writing the opening scene.
Yes. Start with a character’s goal, the conflict and what is at stake. In your novel project, ask the AI for a few possible turns and what each would cost the character. Choose a direction, save it in your outline and develop the next scene with your story notes at hand.
Yes. Saved chapters and materials stay in the project. Reopen it to continue a scene, add another chapter or revise an earlier one. The editor saves your text as you write.
The AI looks things up as it writes: it can read the chapters and materials in your project, search the whole project for a character’s name or a detail, and use saved project memory. Every AI model works with a limited amount of text at a time, so in any tool the way to keep a long novel consistent is to keep the key facts written down. Keep names, the timeline and settled plot points in your materials, and ask the AI to read them and the previous chapter before it drafts the next scene.
You can enter your idea here before signing in. An account is required to create and save the novel project. AI writing uses your account’s available credits and limits, which you can check in Muses.
Bring your draft into Muses, then choose the next unfinished scene or chapter. Ask the AI to read your outline, character notes and relevant chapters, suggest ways through the point where you’re stuck, and draft the direction you choose. Keep the remaining plot turns in your outline and return to the same project for the next session. To bring in existing chapters, sign in and import a ZIP or folder of DOCX, TXT or Markdown files from the home page. The form on this page starts a new project from your idea.
A premise is enough to begin. Develop the outline, write the chapters and keep moving in the same project.
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