Tools for fiction writers. StoryaEdit: developmental notes on your chapter, not your commas. Built by an author.
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StoryaEdit is live: developmental editing for fiction writers.
It reads your chapter the way an editor would. Structure, stakes, pacing, whether each scene turns. Not your commas.
Here's what it does, and what it won't do 🧵
A chapter can be cleanly written and still dead on the page.
Usually it's a scene where nothing turns. The character wants something at the start and wants the same thing at the end.
Check your last chapter. If nothing shifted, that's your rewrite.
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Friendos,
One of my experiments, StoryaEdit, is live.
The job: Paste a chapter. It reads it the way a developmental editor would: scene type, stakes, turning point, pacing.
It doesn't rewrite a word. The writing stays yours.
Get 3 chunks for free, no card required. Link ⬇️
Try it on a chapter: 3 free analyses, no card.
After that, $9.99/mo or $79/yr. Cancel in two clicks.
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What it won't do: write or rewrite a word of your prose. The writing stays yours.
Your manuscript isn't used for training.
Works across most genres.
The notes aren't vibes. They're grounded in the craft books novelists actually use.
StoryaEdit pulls the relevant pages before it writes a single note.
Every scene gets broken down: scene type, point of view, what's at stake, opening and closing polarity, the turning point.
And the hard question: does this scene earn its place?
Paste a chapter and pick a pass:
1. Developmental: the big picture. Does the chapter do its job?
2. Line-level: where the prose slows the story down.
3. Scene planning: map what each scene needs before you rewrite it.
The gap it fills: by draft four, your prose is clean. Grammar tools have nothing left to say.
But the chapter still drags, and you can't see why. That's a developmental problem, and a human dev edit on every draft isn't realistic for most of us.
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