What is Character Analysis

Character Analysis is a report that evaluates the characters in your story across your entire manuscript. It determines your key cast of characters, their presence in your story, and their character arc.

The report helps you understand the motivations and relationships of your characters. It also spots issues and concerns so you have clear, actionable guidance for improving character development.

What does the Character Analysis report include?

Report Overview

This summarizes the character themes and types across the manuscript. The overview also considers if your characters fit within your genre’s conventions and identifies the strongest elements of the characterization.

Cast

View your cast of characters within an at-a-glance table that defines roles, archetypes, and functions. You can also discover each character’s presence across your entire story, stated as a percentage. We have shown an example of this section in the image below.

Relationships Map

This map shows how characters interact throughout the story, including how they meet, crucial turning points in their relationship, and where they end up. We have shown an example of this map in the image below.

Character section

Each key character in your story will have a dedicated section within Character Analysis. This will include a character card with an image generated that is based on how they are physically described, as well as their mannerisms, voice, and signature phrase.

This section also details key aspects of the character’s psychology, along with their wants, needs, and conflict. You can view their character arc on a clearly defined chart. We have shown an example of this chart in the image below.

The report will also identify concerns with the character and suggest improvements.

Conclusion

The conclusion summarizes how well your cast of characters work within your story. It also lists the most important areas of concern for you to focus on for your next revision.

How much does it cost to run Character Analysis?

It costs 1 Story Credit to run Character Analysis once. You can run Character Analysis by using Story Credits. You can purchase Story Credits directly on our website.

If you have a Premium plan, you will get up to 40% off Story Credits. And if you have a Premium Pro plan, you will get up to 65% off Story Credits.

Can I run Character Analysis on my whole manuscript?

Yes, this is the ideal way to run Character Analysis. It will work best by analyzing your entire manuscript of 6,000 words to 300,000 words.

When should I run Character Analysis?

You can choose to run Character Analysis whenever you like. It may be best to run it once you have an established all of the characters and their interactions in your entire story. You could also run it during your drafting stage to understand potential concerns and issues with your characters that you can then improve.

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