Speculative fiction
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Seeds
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Seeds
Story ideas, lines, what-ifs. Anything not yet a book or an essay.
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Progress
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Word tracker
Over tolerance
Score is how close a word is to its target share of the manuscript. At or under target is 100%. Colors follow the thresholds in Settings. Targets are set a little tighter than what published fiction averages; tap a word to change its target. Italic counts are placeholders until you enter the real number.
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Sentence openers
Sentences that begin with the point-of-view pronoun and a verb: "He knocked. He heard. He waited." Readers never notice how often the pronoun appears; they notice when three or four sentences in a row open with it. The flag is 12 or more in any 300-word stretch, a chosen threshold. Fixes: open with a participial phrase, a subordinate clause, an object, a time marker, or merge two short sentences.
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Run a scan on the Word Tracker to measure openers.
Sentence style
Your sentences measured against three writers, every text measured the same way. Henry James (The Ambassadors, 1903) is the long, layered extreme; Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, 1926) the short, plain one; Twain (Life on the Mississippi, 1883) a comic memoir in between. This is a profile, not a grade: closer to James isn't better. Modern comps like Educated aren't here because their text isn't public.
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By chapter
Amber marks a chapter well off your own book average: much longer or shorter sentences, much less variety, or much harder to read.
| Chapter | Avg | Narration | Variety | Long | Clauses | Ease |
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Descriptors
Descriptive words and images that come back across the book: the same phrase in more than one chapter, a word bunched in one scene, or a word you lean on in chapter after chapter. Each is tagged when it falls in a ceremony or vision scene or a painful one. Compare with an earlier version to see what your revisions changed. Check one off once you've dealt with it, or decided to keep it.
Load the manuscript on the Versions tab to look for repeated descriptors.
Repetition
A word can be under its tolerance for the book and still bunch up in one passage. The scan flags a tracked word used several times inside a short stretch, and any distinctive word echoed too soon after itself. Check a finding off once it is fixed.
Run a scan to look for bunching.
Tension
Two readings of psychological tension. Signals is automatic: threat, fear and pain words, body stress cues, unanswered questions and bursts of short sentences, minus laughter and relief, measured every 250 words the same way for all four books. Judged is a reader's score for each scene of your book (stakes, threat, suspense, inner conflict), 0 to 10. James, Hemingway and Twain are measured on signals only.
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Across the book
Signal tension from first page to last, each book stretched to the same width. Ticks on the bottom mark your chapter starts.
Chapter by chapter
Bars are the judged average; the mark above each bar is the chapter's peak scene.
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Spelling, Tense, Punctuation
Grammar / word form
Outside strict STP. Flagged separately, so these don't affect a chapter's Complete status.
Review tracker
Which chapters have been through which kind of review. Auto fills itself from Slickpage.ai's chapter reviews and turns amber when the chapter's text was loaded after that review. Check the others as they happen; the date is stamped for you.
Revision Playbook
Chapters
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Versions
Each version is a draft of the manuscript, with the scores it earned at the time. Italic rows are mock data until you edit them. Tap a version number to read its notes.
ProseStoryBook score
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Submissions
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Query letters
Every version of the query letter, newest first. Tap one to read it.
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Characters
Each character has a set of standard qualities plus any you add. Pick one, then audit the text against those qualities to catch drift: an eye color that changes, a voice that slips, a motive that vanishes.
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Audit this character
Choose what to check against. Whole book and chapters use the manuscript loaded below; the audit runs a few chapters at a time and can take several minutes for the whole book.
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Notes
Anything worth writing down: a book to read, a question about a character, an idea for a scene. Each note is stamped with the date and time.
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To Do
Follow-ups, events and anything else with a date: a nudge to an agent, a seminar, a Zoom, a deadline. Kept separate from Submissions, but an item can point at an agent so their history is a tap away.
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From your submissions
Closed agents whose check date has arrived. These come from the Submissions tab and clear when you update the agent there.
Setting up
Settings
Score colors
Scores and progress are colored green, yellow and red against these thresholds. Turn the colors off for a plain view.
Below the yellow threshold is red.
Dashboard layout
Untick anything you don't want to see. Use the arrows to reorder. Your layout syncs across your devices.
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Open questions about this tracker. Check one off when it's settled.
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