See your novel through the eyes of Stephen King
A 0-100 score, 11 craft dimensions broken into 161 factors, quotes from your own text and a concrete revision plan. Grounded in recognized craft schools.
Dimension by dimension, the way a senior developmental editor reads.
You pay for your book, not a flat fee
Four steps to a full read
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Read chapter by chapter
Each chapter is read on its own: strengths, problems, an editorial note with quotes from your text.
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Per-dimension analysis
From the chapter reads we build a score for 11 craft dimensions, broken into factors and sub-factors.
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Factors with a school
Each factor is a concrete aspect of craft grounded in a recognized school, with evidence and a fix.
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Score and recommendation
Sub-factors add up to a dimension score and an overall result. The recommendation reconciles craft with your text's intent.
The score is not a black box
Reweight dimensions and switch aspects on or off. The overall score recomputes live, so you tune the read to your vision for the book.
An illustrative example. In the app you recompute the whole score this way, dimension by dimension.
Eleven dimensions of craft
Each dimension has its own score, an assessment and expandable factors with evidence and fixes.
Language & style
Showing over telling, sensory specifics, sentence rhythm and clean prose.
Structure & plot
Cause and effect, turning points, stakes and structural coherence.
Pacing & scene craft
Scene goal, tension, economy of time and the rhythm of action and rest.
Characters
Desire, arc, believable motivation and the depth of relationships.
Dialogue
Subtext, distinct voices, scene function and naturalness of exchange.
Point of view & distance
Consistency of narration, psychic distance and discipline of perspective.
World & setting
Grounding scenes in space, world coherence and the dosing of backstory.
Theme & meaning
What the book says under the plot, whether theme emerges from scenes or lecture.
Premise & originality
Freshness of the idea, genre promise and what sets the text apart.
Opening & hook
The first pages: promise, tension and a reason to keep reading.
Ending & payoff
Whether the ending pays off the threads it planted and lands emotionally.
A full report, not one number
An overall score, dimensions with evidence, a per-chapter read, a revision plan and a style profile. All with quotes from your text.
Overall score with bands
A 0-100 number and a band label, from „raw” to „publication-ready”.
Dimensions with evidence
Each dimension broken into factors, with a quote from the text and a fix.
Per-chapter read
A score, strengths and a list of fixes for each chapter on its own.
Revision plan
A prioritized list of editorial tasks with a severity level and a concrete fix.
Style profile & themes
Register, narrative mode, pacing intent and the themes of your book.
The exchanges carry the plot, but too often say outright what the scene already shows.
Chapter 4: „I am angry at you because you forgot”, she said angrily.
Cut the named feeling, keep the gesture. Let the anger play in the pause and in what she does not say.
per Browne & King, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
The confrontation scene holds its tension and the interior details work on the mood.
The middle of the chapter summarizes what should be played out as a full scene.
Play out the climax of chapter 4 as a full scene, not a summary.
Cut named emotions in dialogue, keep gesture and subtext.
Firm up the antagonist's motivation in the second act.
Recognized craft schools
Every scoring factor cites a specific school of craft, not an anonymous opinion.
- Robert McKee, Story
- John Truby, The Anatomy of Story
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft
- Brandon Sanderson, Sanderson's Laws
- Blake Snyder, Save the Cat!
- Lajos Egri, The Art of Dramatic Writing
- Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction
- Browne & King, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
- Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages
- Donald Maass, Writing the Breakout Novel
- John Gardner, The Art of Fiction
- Jack Bickham, Scene & Structure
- Dwight Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer
- John Yorke, Into the Woods
- Christopher Vogler, The Writer's Journey
- Lisa Cron, Story Genius
- Orson Scott Card, Characters & Viewpoint
- Stephen King, On Writing
- Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
11 dimensions. 161 factors. The full taxonomy is open in the app.
You see exactly what and why we score
For every aspect we show when something is off, how to fix it and which school it comes from.
The biggest turns summarized in one sentence, while trivia gets full scenes.
Find the emotional peak of the chapter and play it out in real time: dialogue, gesture, a concrete detail.
Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction
A read in your book's language
A Polish book gets a Polish read, an English one English, a German one German. Scores, evidence and fixes in the same language as your text.
You pay for your book, not a flat fee
Cost is based on the real length of your novel. Before you start you see a conservative estimate, around half the price of comparable editorial critiques.
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See your novel through the eyes of Stephen King
Upload your novel and get a full craft read, dimension by dimension, with evidence from the text.
You pay for your book, not a flat fee