WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Jot down who’s in the chapter, what happens and how it ends. The AI writes the whole chapter into a new novel project in Muses, ready for you to revise.
Interactive demo with a sample novel: the chapter written from those notes, one passage reworked, then chapter two written from the outline and a character’s notes. Accept or reject the change yourself.
New Chapter
The Kittiwake was drifting a quarter mile off the breakwater, and there was no one at the wheel.
Tess knew the boat before she could read the name. Danny had painted the hull that terrible green the summer he turned twenty, and nobody in Carrow Bay had let him forget it.
She came alongside, tied on and climbed over. The cabin was empty. His thermos stood on the chart table, lid off, the coffee long gone cold.
Tess stood in the doorway and made herself look at everything once. The bunk was made. Danny never made his bunk.
His oilskins were gone from the hook. The radio was switched off, not smashed, the handset hung back in its clip the way their father had taught them both.
She checked the fuel, then the bilge, then the sky to the east, where the light was coming up gray over the headland.
If she called it in, the harbormaster would have the lifeboat out within the hour, and everyone in Carrow Bay would know by noon.
She went back over the rail, made the tow line fast to her own stern, and turned for the harbor.
By the time she rounded the breakwater she had the lie ready.
Write this chapter in full from my notes: Tess finds her brother Danny’s boat adrift at dawn, empty. She tows it in and lies to the harbormaster. Ends on a light in the net shed he swore he’d sold.
Your chapter is on the page, told from Tess’s side and ending on the light in the net shed. Tell me what to change.
New Chapter
The Kittiwake was drifting a quarter mile off the breakwater, and there was no one at the wheel.
Tess knew the boat before she could read the name. Danny had painted the hull that terrible green the summer he turned twenty, and nobody in Carrow Bay had let him forget it.
She came alongside, tied on and climbed over. The cabin was empty. His thermos stood on the chart table, lid off, the coffee long gone cold.
She came alongside too fast, missed the cleat twice, and was shouting his name before she had even tied on. She scrambled over the rail. The cabin was empty. His thermos stood on the chart table, lid off, the coffee long gone cold.
Tess stood in the doorway and made herself look at everything once. The bunk was made. Danny never made his bunk.
His oilskins were gone from the hook. The radio was switched off, not smashed, the handset hung back in its clip the way their father had taught them both.
She checked the fuel, then the bilge, then the sky to the east, where the light was coming up gray over the headland.
If she called it in, the harbormaster would have the lifeboat out within the hour, and everyone in Carrow Bay would know by noon.
She went back over the rail, made the tow line fast to her own stern, and turned for the harbor.
By the time she rounded the breakwater she had the lie ready.
Too calm. Let her panic before she gets aboard.
Now she misses the cleat and is shouting for him before she’s tied on. It’s marked in the chapter for you to accept or reject.
Outline
1 · The Kittiwake. Tess finds Danny’s boat adrift, tows it in, lies to the harbormaster. A light in the net shed.
2 · The net shed. Someone has been sleeping there. Danny’s jacket, not Danny. Tess takes the jacket home.
3 · Low tide. The harbormaster brings the boat’s log. The last page has been torn out.
Read my outline and Tess’s notes, then write chapter two.
Chapter two, “The Net Shed,” is in your project. It opens: “Someone had been sleeping on the nets, and it wasn’t Danny.”
Sample novel written for this demo; the interface is drawn from current Muses components. The AI’s wording differs every time.
The chapter is written straight into a novel project of your own in Muses, beside folders for your outline and character notes. There’s nothing to copy and paste, and you can bring in the chapters you’ve already written.
Keep your outline in Story Outline and your cast in Characters. Ask the AI to “read my notes on the sister first,” and it does before it writes. Along the way, it looks things up in your project when it needs to.
Ask for changes in plain words: “slower,” “cut the flashback,” “make him push back.” Each one shows up in place for you to accept or reject. When the chapter reads right, ask for the next one.
Sign in or create an account, and Muses opens a new novel project with folders for Worldbuilding, Characters, Story Outline and References. A new chapter opens, and your notes are already in the chat beside it. The AI may check a point or two first, such as whose point of view to use, or save your notes to Story Outline. Then it writes the full chapter on the page. To steer it, say what you want in the chat.
A few lines on who’s in the chapter, what happens and how it ends. Add point of view, tense or tone if you have them in mind, like “close third on Ilsa” or “quick and comic.” The box here holds one chapter’s notes. Once you’re signed in, keep your whole outline in the Story Outline folder, written there or uploaded as a DOCX, TXT or Markdown file, and ask the AI to read it first: “read my outline, then write chapter three.”
Tell the AI what you have in mind. Put it in your notes, like “a short, tense chapter” or “let the argument run,” and it aims for that. Once the chapter is on the page, ask for more where you want it: “slow down the reunion and give it a few more beats.” Each addition shows up in place, like any other change you ask for.
Give it your own pages to match. Once your earlier chapters are in the project, ask the AI to read one before it writes: “read chapter one and match its voice.” You can also paste a sample passage into the chat, or describe your style in your notes, like “close third, short sentences, dry humor.” Then steer it in the chat: “less formal,” “cut the adverbs,” “she wouldn’t say that.”
Yes, the ones in your project. When a chat starts, the AI reads the chapter you have open in full, and it opens your other chapters and notes when it needs them. If something matters, name it: “reread chapter one and check Danny in Characters first.” Already partway through your book? On the Muses home page, hover over your novel’s card, click its three-dot button, choose Import into This Project, and add a folder or ZIP of DOCX, TXT or Markdown chapters.
Any of it. Edit the chapter yourself, or ask the AI: “end the scene sooner,” “give the harbormaster a line here.” Its suggestions show up right in the chapter. Accept or reject them paragraph by paragraph, or edit a suggestion before you keep it; text already on the page changes only when you accept. Each time you finish reviewing, the chapter saves a version you can go back to.
Yes. Ask in the same chat, for example “next chapter: the harbormaster brings the boat’s log,” and the AI writes it as a new chapter in your project. Keep character notes in Characters as you go: write them yourself, or ask the AI to save what you tell it. To look further ahead, click the / button at the bottom of the chat box and pick Build Outline to plan the coming chapters with the AI, or lay them out as a mind map in your project.
Yes. Export any chapter as DOCX, Markdown, TXT or PDF, or export the whole project as one combined file or as a ZIP with a file for each chapter.
You can write your notes here before signing in; you’ll need an account to open the project and use the AI. The free plan includes a monthly AI allowance, and paid plans include more. The Pricing page has current details for each plan.
Yes. The AI answers in the language you write to it in. Your chat opens with a short request in English, so write your notes in your book’s language and say which language the chapter should be in, such as “in Spanish.” The Muses interface itself comes in nine languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.
You do. Under Muses’ terms, what you write stays yours, and so does the text the AI writes for you. Muses does not use your writing or your conversations to train AI models. If you’d rather the Muses team didn’t review your AI conversations to improve the product, turn off “Allow conversation review” in your Profile.
You already know what happens next. Put it in a few lines and sign in. The AI writes the whole chapter in Muses, and the one after whenever you ask.
Start with my notes