How Do I Use Chapter Critique?
With Chapter Critique you get an on-demand developmental critique of your chapter or short story. It provides comprehensive and actionable feedback on your story’s strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement.
Similar to our Summary Report, you can click through the Chapter Critique headings on the left-hand side of your results to see specific feedback about your document.
Chapter Critique works with documents of up to 4,000 words. We recommend writing at least 500 words to ensure you get a meaningful amount of feedback on your writing.
If you are a novelist and would prefer to analyze multiple chapters at once, you may find Manuscript Analysis more suited to your needs. You can find more information about the difference between Chapter Critique and Manuscript Analysis here.
Purchasing Chapter Critique credits
If you have a free account, you can upgrade to a Premium license through our pricing page to access 1 Chapter Critique per day. Or you can upgrade to Premium Pro for 3 Chapter Critiques per day. The prices shown are in GBP (in the UK), EUR (Europe), INR (India), or in USD (the US and the rest of the world).
If you have an active Premium license, you can also upgrade to Premium Pro through your account page to access 3 Chapter Critiques per day. You will receive a discount based on the license that you already purchased and the time left on your license. You can find more about this here.
Unlike Plagiarism Checks and Manuscript Analysis, Chapter Critiques are not available for purchase on an ad hoc basis.
Running the Chapter Critique
In the Web Editor, Chapter Critique appears under the Critique button in the toolbar that appears at the top of your document.
When using Desktop Everywhere and our browser extensions, Chapter Critique will appear when you click the Critique button, after clicking the ProWritingAid icon.
If you use our Word Add-In (Windows only), Chapter Critique appears under the Critique button in the toolbar at the top of your Word document.
Chapter Critique will also appear under the Critique button when you open the ProWritingAid tab in Word.
- Click on the Chapter Critique button to run the report on your document.
Working with the Chapter Critique
Each section of the report gives you detailed actionable feedback on your writing, which you can use to refine your story.
In this article, we’ve provided a detailed breakdown of what the headings mean and the kind of feedback you can expect.
Running a Chapter Critique will show the total daily amount you have left each day. The counter will update to reflect the correct remaining amount each time, so there are no surprises.
Chapter Critique uses will reset every day at 00:00 UTC, ready for you to access actionable feedback on your chapters and short stories again.
Saving your Chapter Critique
Every time you run a Chapter Critique, we will save it automatically to your Feedback History. From there, you will be able to rename it to a memorable name.
Your saved Chapter Critique reports synchronize across all our integrations. You can read more in this article.
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