What is the Manuscript Analysis?

Manuscript Analysis offers on-demand actionable feedback to writers of all experience levels. It provides comprehensive actionable analysis of characters, plot, and setting, and prioritizes which aspects to improve in your story, providing the rationale for these suggested actions.

Manuscript Analysis is broken down into five sections:

• About My Story: Gives you key information about your story’s genre, narrative elements, and competitive landscape.
• Narrative Themes: Highlights the key narrative threads throughout your story, and flags themes that are working well along with themes that could use some adjustments.
• Plot & Structure: Highlights plot points that are working well, as well as those that might need improvement.
• Characters: Examines important characterization moments and highlights areas where a particular character is working well or could use some closer examination.
• Setting: Analyzes how your use of setting contributes to the overall narrative structure of your manuscript. This section flags if you need to improve any aspect of your setting, and what you might do to make it stronger.

The Manuscript Analysis also provides chapter-specific insights, and identifies plot holes, inconsistencies, and areas where world-building can be improved, to help you pinpoint exactly in your manuscript where improvements are needed.

How do I use the Manuscript Analysis?

To use the Manuscript Analysis, you will need to purchase credits, which you can do here. Once you have credits in your account, follow the instructions in this article to run the Manuscript Analysis on your document.

Can I run a Manuscript Analysis on my whole manuscript?

Manuscript Analysis has been designed to work with your whole manuscript. The longer your text, the more accurate your Manuscript Analysis results will be.

We recommend writing at least 4,000 words, or to analyze several chapters at once, to ensure you get a meaningful amount of feedback on your writing.

The maximum number of words you can use the Manuscript Analysis for is 150,000 each time you run the report.

If your story is over 150,000 words, the Manuscript Analysis may still run on your text but might not give optimal results.

What is the difference between Chapter Critique and Manuscript Analysis?

Both our Chapter Critique and Manuscript Analysis offer on-demand feedback for writers. However, Chapter Critique has been designed to provide comprehensive developmental feedback for shorter pieces of text (up to 4,000 words), and Manuscript Analysis provides actionable analysis of characters, plot, and setting in entire manuscripts, considering the full context of your story. In this article, you will find a comparison of both reports.

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