Every chapter is reviewed ten ways before you read it

Checking a chapter for slips can take longer than writing it. Ten reviews read each new chapter, fix what they find and tell you what changed.

What it looks like

Chapter 1, Lye Lane

Every night I listened for my father coming up the stairs. By the second step I knew what sort of mood he was in, and so what sort of boy I had to be when he opened the door.

There was a heel of bread on the shelf, but it was for my father when he woke, and nobody looked at it.

Word count: passedRhythm: 22 sentences flaggedDialogue 19.9%, your minimum is 20%Next: continuity check
The opening of chapter 1 of a novel, with the results of its reviews

What it does

Measured by Scriptava

Word count and rhythm are counted by code, so your AI can’t mark them passed.

Checked again after edits

Change the text and the reviews it affects run again.

Yours to change

Edit, reorder, switch off or add reviews, and set the pass mark. Your AI can’t change it.

The ten reviews every series starts with

  1. Word countThe length its plan asked for.
  2. RhythmSentence rhythm, and patterns that read as machine-written.
  3. ContinuityFacts, the timeline, and who could know what by now.
  4. Senior editorPace, scene craft and dialogue.
  5. Plain readerDecorated lines, rewritten plainly.
  6. ClarityAnything a first-time reader would trip on.
  7. ProofreaderSpelling, grammar and punctuation.
  8. Whole read and scoreThe chapter as a whole, against your pass mark.
  9. Final sweepOne last pass for clichés.
  10. Story bible updateThe summary, timeline and story bible, ready for the next chapter.

Questions

Who runs the reviews?

Your own AI, following instructions Scriptava gives it. That’s why we never charge for AI.

Do the reviews change my text?

Some fix what they find. Every change is a version you can undo.

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