FEATURES

The manuscript diagnostic built for serious authors.

Understand how your story is built, find the writing that gets in its way, and clean the manuscript, with an engine that reads the whole thing and shows you where it looked.

Try the workspace

No credit card. The analysis engine runs in your browser.

The Secret GardenPartial manuscript (chapters 1–8) · 21,138 words

Narrative Structure

described, not scored

8 chapters from headings. Action or dialogue ranges from 29% to 65% of a chapter, highest in Chapter VIII.

100% 50% 0% Chapter I: 29% · 1,904 words Chapter II: 52% · 2,699 words Chapter III: 34% · 1,462 words Chapter IV: 54% · 5,307 words Chapter V: 44% · 2,233 words Chapter VI: 38% · 2,267 words Chapter VII: 49% · 1,988 words Chapter VIII: 65% · 2,722 words 13578CHAPTER

Share of each chapter that is action or dialogue, rather than summary

21 of 24 named characters appear in more than one chapter

Mary, the most-mentioned, appears in 8 of 8 chapters.

Inspect Chapter VIII
Real output on a public-domain novel. Open it yourself in the workspace demo.
CORE ANALYSIS · FREE

A complete diagnostic, in minutes.

Upload a Word document, PDF or text file and get a detailed reading across structure, craft and mechanics. Every score shows the counts it was built from, and anything the engine cannot measure is described rather than scored.

Structure

Understand the shape of your story.

How much of each chapter is scene against summary, where that thins or spikes, chapter length against the book’s own norm, and whether the cast persists.

  • Narrative structure, described with the chapters to inspect
  • Pacing heatmap by kind of prose
  • Opening diagnosis
  • Reader-momentum signals
Craft

Find the writing that’s getting in the way.

Judged for the passage it sits in. A long sentence in a reflective stretch is measured against your other reflective stretches, not a fixed number.

  • Dialogue: tags, monologue density, filler
  • Show versus tell candidates
  • Line editing: tone, precision, rhythm
  • Copy editing: passive voice, adverbs, repetition, clichés
Mechanics

Clean the manuscript with confidence.

Grammar rules written for fiction: the subjunctive, speech cadence and dialect are not errors, and a doubled object is grammar.

  • Grammar and typos, in context
  • Optional LanguageTool pass
  • Names and invented terms recognised
  • No inflated scores, no hidden floors
BOOK INTELLIGENCE · PREMIUM

Go deeper when you’re ready to take it further.

Editorial reading that explains the why behind the numbers, grounded in your chapters and always marked as advice. It never changes a score.

  • Deep critique
  • Editing roadmap
  • Opening analysis
  • Chapter breakdown
  • Comparable titles
  • Query letter
  • Beta-reader panel
  • Market readiness
  • Ask your book
Explore premium
Example excerpt

The air tasted like ash, and Narubi watched the skyline burn. She had survived worse, but this felt different.

It wasn’t just a city falling.

It was a choice.

Book Intelligence · advisory

The emotion is summarised where the scene could carry it

“This felt different” names the feeling instead of letting the reader find it. The image before it, ash and a burning skyline, is doing the work; consider what Narubi does with her hands, her breath, her attention.

Interpretation, not measurement. Your scores are unchanged.
BUILT FOR YOUR STORY

20 genres. Analysis that understands the difference.

Genre changes what good writing looks like. A self-help book is not judged against fiction goals, a thriller is not asked to slow down, and the left rail tells you what a reader of your genre comes for.

Your manuscript already contains the evidence.
See what it says.

No credit card. Your manuscript stays private.

YOUR WRITING DESK AWAITS

Welcome back.

Sign in to return to your manuscripts.

or use your email

New to AuthorScrolls?