What type of feedback does Manuscript Analysis provide?
Manuscript Analysis gives you actionable feedback on your entire manuscript. It generates detailed analysis of characters, plot, and setting, prioritized by importance.
The key feedback in Manuscript Analysis includes:
- Strengths: What’s working well in your writing
- Competitive Landscape: What type of readers your manuscript attracts
- Themes & Message: How well the themes and messages of your story are portrayed
- Plot & Structure: How effective your plot and structure are, including pacing, foreshadowing, inconsistencies, repetitive storytelling devices, subplots, and more
- Characters: How well your characters are developed, including voice, perspective, backstory, growth/arc, and more
- Setting: How engaging the setting is and what you can do to make your story more immersive
Manuscript Analysis shows four categories of feedback with color coding:
- “Working well” in green
- “Minor concern” in yellow
- “Concern” in orange
- “Major concern” in red.
Each type of feedback gives you chapter-specific insights, so you always know exactly where in your manuscript you’re doing well or where your text needs improving.
When Manuscript Analysis flags a category as a “Minor concern,” “Concern,” or “Major Concern” under the section titled “Where in your text,” you will see the new Text Location function. It contains a list of one or more buttons with a map pinpoint icon and part of the first sentence of the text’s location. Click on each button to jump to the exact text location in your manuscript. We have highlighted an example of these buttons in red in the image below.
To find out more, read our article about how to use the Text Location function.
You can also change the status of all feedback to indicate if you agree or disagree with the suggestions or are currently considering the feedback. To find out more, read our article about how to change the status of feedback in Manuscript Analysis.
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