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    Manuscript Reports

    The Reports page reads your entire book and shows you what you actually wrote: the words you lean on and where they echo, clichés, sentence rhythm and variety, how much of the book is dialogue, readability, adverbs and possible passives, a pacing curve along the story, point-of-view balance, and where every character and place appears — or quietly vanishes.

    2 min read Updated Mac · Windows · Linux

    Every figure is measured from your text, not generated. No AI is involved, no internet is required, and nothing leaves your machine. A full novel analyzes in under a second, automatically, the moment you open the page.

    Reading a report#

    1. Open the book and go to Reports.
    2. Each report shows a chart, a plain-English summary, and a rating.
    3. Click any occurrence to jump to that exact spot in the scene.

    Reports describe; they don’t prescribe. A high adverb count in a voicey first-person narrator might be the voice. The reports exist so the choice is yours to make knowingly.

    Your own rules#

    Give Reports a house-style list — the words and phrases you’ve promised yourself to stop using — and every run counts them, down to the happy zero.

    1. On the Reports page, open the watch-list settings.
    2. Add a word or phrase per line.
    3. Re-run: your list gets its own report with click-throughs.

    Comparing over time#

    Runs are remembered with the manuscript state they measured, so after a revision pass you can see the numbers move. The occurrence lists always reflect your current text — they’re recomputed live, never stale.

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