Chapter-by-chapter developmental analysis of your manuscript. Pacing maps. Continuity checks. Character arc assessments. Actionable revision priorities, not vague sentiment.
Upload Your Manuscript Free up to 10k words · £20 per reportEvery report covers the same ground as a professional developmental editor.
What your book is really about, where it has the reader, and where it loses them.
Pacing, character, plot, tension, and specific concerns for every chapter. Not padding — only chapters that need attention get detail.
A visual momentum chart showing exactly where your book accelerates, sags, and peaks.
Arc, voice, consistency, and reader relationship for every major character.
Causality chain analysis, subplot integration, turning points, and structural integrity.
Specific timeline errors, physical impossibilities, and factual contradictions with chapter references.
Whether tone holds across the manuscript, and where shifts feel accidental rather than intentional.
Does the first chapter hook? Does the ending satisfy the promises the opening made?
Prose quality, dialogue, voice consistency, show-don't-tell, sentence rhythm, sensory engagement.
Eleven questions answered from a first-time reader's perspective. Believability, clarity, engagement, surprise.
Star ratings across 18 categories with one-line assessments. Your manuscript's health at a glance.
The most impactful changes you can make, ranked. Specific and actionable, not vague advice.
Excerpts from our sample report on Jekyll and Hyde. Not summaries — analysis.
Underneath the gothic apparatus — the transformation, the London fog, the locked cabinet — this is a book about the unbearable cost of respectability. Jekyll’s tragedy is not that he invented Hyde; it is that he needed to. The novel is about the Victorian professional class eating itself alive: the deformity Hyde carries is not supernatural in origin but moral.
Utterson is immediately and efficiently established: the detail that he “drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages” does more character work than a paragraph of summary. Enfield is thinner — the “well-known man about town” is a type more than a person — but the chapter does not pretend otherwise.
The physical description of Hyde is a genuine achievement: “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable… He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point.” The inarticulacy is the point. The reader’s imagination fills the gap with something worse than any specific description could provide.
The biggest structural concern is the one the novel cannot fully escape: the central secret — that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person — is almost certainly known to the reader before they open the book. The question the manuscript must now answer is: given that the reader knows the secret, is there enough else here to justify the structure? The answer is mostly yes, but not entirely.
Most AI editing tools tell you how readers might feel. We tell you what's structurally wrong and where to fix it.
| Feature | Red Ink Report | ProWritingAid |
|---|---|---|
| Price per report | £20 | £25–50 |
| Chapter-by-chapter developmental notes | ✓ | ✕ |
| Visual pacing map | ✓ | ✕ |
| Continuity error log | ✓ | ✕ |
| Plot architecture analysis | ✓ | ✕ |
| Character arc assessment | ✓ | ✕ |
| Genre-specific structural analysis | ✓ | ✕ |
| Ranked revision priorities | ✓ | ✕ |
| Summary scorecard with ratings | ✓ | ✕ |
| Writing craft review | ✓ | ✕ |
| Reader sentiment overview | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marketing insights | ✕ | ✓ |
| Spelling & grammar check | ✓ | ✓ (separate tool) |
| No subscription required | ✓ | ✕ |
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Any fiction. The report adapts its structural analysis to your genre — mystery, romance, thriller, literary fiction, fantasy, science fiction, historical, horror, YA, and more. Each genre has its own conventions and the report checks against them.
Approximately 15 minutes for a standard-length novel. Longer manuscripts may take slightly more. You'll receive an email when your report is ready.
Up to 150,000 words. That covers everything from novellas to epic fantasy. If your manuscript is longer, get in touch.
Yes — and that’s the point. AI lets us read your entire manuscript in one pass, cross-reference every chapter against every other, and deliver a level of structural analysis that would take a human reader days. Read the sample report and judge for yourself.
No, and it's not trying to. Think of it as a first pass that catches structural issues, continuity errors, and pacing problems before you spend £500 or more on a professional developmental edit. Your editor will thank you.
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