For novelists
A professional-grade Narrative Evaluation of your manuscript — the same kind of structural read a developmental editor delivers, without the six-week wait or the four-figure invoice.
You spent two years on a novel. The slush pile reads page one. Slushproof reads the whole thing — pacing, structure, character agency, prose clutter, voice consistency — and gives you a roadmap for the next revision. No AI writes a single word for you. We measure; you write.
Opens a window where you paste up to 2,000 words of your novel, click Analyze, and see the results inline — no leaving this page, no signup to try it.
A multi-page report covering five lenses on your manuscript:
Structure — The skeleton
Where your beats land vs where they should. Save the Cat fit, act-break placement, midpoint, climax, falling-action ratio.
Pacing — The heartbeat
Chapter-by-chapter tension, dead zones, sag detection. Where readers will close the book.
Character — The engine
Agency audits per character, on-page time, dialogue distribution, absentee characters. Where your protagonist stops driving the plot.
Prose — The texture
Adverb density, passive constructions, qualifier creep, cliché patterns, dialogue-tag adverbs — mapped to chapters so you know where the work is.
Voice — The soul
POV consistency, tonal drift, narrative-distance shifts. Whether your unique voice holds across 80,000 words.
| Feature | Developmental editor ($1,500–$5,000) | Slushproof Narrative Evaluation |
|---|---|---|
| Methodology | Subjective taste & intuition | Objective measurement against published-fiction benchmarks |
| Consistency | Varies with the editor's mood and recency bias | 100% consistent across every chapter |
| Memory | Prone to forgetting Chapter 3 by Chapter 30 | Tracks every character beat with total precision |
| Turnaround | 4–8 weeks | ~90 seconds |
| AI involvement | None (probably) | None. We don't write your prose. |
| Cost | $1,500–$5,000 | No charge during open beta |
Every craft principle Slushproof flags is cited to its source — King on adverbs, Gardner on POV, McKee on structure, Strunk on prose. We didn't invent these rules; we measure your manuscript against them. Read the canon →
“Slushproof measures. You write.”
— The principle of the platform.