Writing tools
Two tools that analyse writing you have already done. Neither generates prose for you — they read a scene or an outline and tell you something about it you could not easily see yourself.
Inner-Monologue Dramaturg
Finds the lines where a character says exactly what they feel — the most common note in manuscript critique, and the hardest to catch in your own work.
It splits a scene into beats and, for each one, infers what the character wants in that moment, what stands in the way, and what they are actually thinking while they say something else. Every beat gets an on-the-nose score between 0 and 1, so the flattest lines rank to the top of your own scene.
The method comes from Ivana Chubbuck's technique for actors — the discipline of finding an objective and an obstacle inside every single line — applied to fiction rather than performance. Where it suggests a rewrite, it cites the research behind the suggestion.
What it is not: It analyses what you wrote. It does not write for you, and the score is one model's reading — useful for ranking lines against each other, not a verdict on any single line.
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Truby's 7-Steps Validator
Checks a story outline against the seven structural steps John Truby treats as load-bearing: weakness, desire, opponent, plan, battle, self-revelation, new equilibrium.
You give it the shape of your story; it reports which of the seven it can actually locate in what you wrote and which it cannot. A step it cannot find is not automatically a flaw — plenty of good novels omit one deliberately — but an absence you did not know about is worth seeing.
What it is not: This is structural bookkeeping, not a quality judgement. It works from public, widely-documented aspects of the framework and is not endorsed by John Truby.
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In development: voice preservation
A tool that drafts in your voice from your own chapters — being tested against a standard that is allowed to kill it.
We are running a blind study with working authors judging edits to their own manuscripts. If they can tell our output from their own writing, we do not ship it, and we will publish that result either way.
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Accounts and pricing are being reworked, so there is nothing to buy right now. We will email when there is.