Professional manuscript diagnostics

Story Audit Studio

Analyze plot logic, continuity, character consistency, pacing, timeline structure, proofreading checks, motifs, and source-similarity references without changing the author's manuscript.

Turn hard-to-track manuscript patterns into structured review findings with chapter references, evidence excerpts, severity, and confidence.

Analysis only
Chapter references
Manuscript unchanged

Created by writers, for writers

Built for the hard middle of revision

Writing a manuscript is hard enough before you try to diagnose what is working, what is missing, and what quietly drifted between early chapters and the ending.

Story Audit Studio was built for writers doing the difficult middle work: revising, questioning, organizing, and trying to see the story clearly without losing faith in it.

The goal is not to replace the writer or flatten the voice. The goal is to point back to the manuscript with useful signals, so the human writer can decide what comes next.

Read the Story Audit Studio philosophy

See what your manuscript is telling you

See the whole manuscript without losing the story

Story Audit Studio™ organizes chapters, recurring details, and diagnostic findings so you can review the draft with context instead of chasing notes across hundreds of pages.

Chapter-aware diagnostics

Connect findings to detected chapters, sections, page estimates, and cited text areas.

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Story Contents Index

Review the high-level outline, character inventory, tracked terms, locations, and recurring references before analysis.

Explore story contents

Evidence-backed findings

See severity, confidence, chapter references, evidence excerpts, and a diagnostic next step.

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Reports matched to your level

Choose focused diagnostics or review a complete Editorial diagnostic bundle.

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From manuscript to review signal

Follow each finding back to the text

Reports connect measurable patterns and detected contradictions to manuscript locations, supporting evidence, confidence, and a clear area for human review.

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Timeline
Severity: HighConfidence: High (82%)Chapter 6: Low Tide

Weather window conflicts with scene action

Ferry traffic is cancelled before midnight, but the character later arrives on a 12:35 ferry without a detected exception.

Evidence / text area
By 11:50, the harbor master had locked every gate and cancelled ferry service until dawn.
Mara stepped off the 12:35 ferry with rainwater in her cuffs.
Projects
3
Recent manuscripts
3
Analysis runs
7
Projects
Maple Street Notes
Completed reports available
The Harbor Bell
Completed reports available
Orchard After Rain
Completed reports available
The Starfall Ledger
Completed reports available

Available with Editorial

Manage multiple manuscripts in one workspace

Keep projects, manuscript versions, recent reports, and diagnostic activity organized for repeated editorial review.

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User reviews

How writers and editors could use it

Representative perspectives based on the workflows Story Audit Studio™ is being designed to support.

I knew parts of my draft felt uneven, but I could not always explain why. Seeing chapter-length changes, timeline references, and repeated details in one place gave me a practical list to review without making me feel like the story was being rewritten for me.

First-time novelist
Revising a first completed manuscript

Continuity gets harder to hold in your head once a manuscript grows beyond a few hundred pages. The evidence excerpts and chapter references helped me check possible conflicts quickly, while the confidence labels made it clear which findings needed context before I acted on them.

Independent author
Preparing a multi-book series draft

This does not replace an editorial read, and that is exactly the point. It organizes structural patterns, recurring facts, and possible inconsistencies before I begin deeper review, giving me more time to focus on character, intent, and the decisions only a human editor can make.

Developmental editor
Reviewing manuscripts for clients

See the complete workflow before choosing a plan

Explore realistic Basic, Starter, Advanced, and Editorial sample workspaces, then compare subscription levels when you are ready.

Diagnostic coverage

Plot holes, continuity issues, character consistency, timeline risk, pacing variance, proofreading checks, motif drift, extracted outlines, character details, and source similarity by tier.

Report structure

Printable reports with category grouping, severity counts, confidence labels, chapter references, evidence excerpts, decisions, and a revision checklist.

Author ownership

Uploaded manuscripts are parsed for diagnostics. The original manuscript file remains unchanged throughout the workflow.

Story Audit Studio™