The horse was foaming at the bit after being ridden hard. As he moved through the farmlands to avoid Carcon's encirclement, a few farmers had screamed after him, leaving him hoping they would not go and alert any guards or soldiers.
A well sat ahead on the road. The cursed problem: it was packed.
Soldiers were standing around. There were also a couple of trade convoys and a few white tunic-wearing Righteous priests.
The rat squirmed in his pocket as Lotar did the same atop the saddle, each move sending sharp jabs of pain up his lower back. A gracious remnant of the wounds suffered in Carcon during the interrogation.
Thesis
ProWritingAid tells you your sentences are too long. StoryaEdit tells you your chapter doesn't know what it's trying to do.
The difference matters when you are on draft four and the prose is already clean. Most tools in this category measure the wrong thing well. We measure the right thing, on purpose.
Three passes on the same page
One excerpt. Three editorial registers. Each one annotates what it sees.
The horse was foaming at the bit after being ridden hard. As he moved through the farmlands to avoid Carcon's encirclement, a few farmers had screamed after him, leaving him hoping they would not go and alert any guards or soldiers.
A well sat ahead on the road. The cursed problem: it was packed.
Soldiers were standing around. There were also a couple of trade convoys and a few white tunic-wearing Righteous priests.
The rat squirmed in his pocket as Lotar did the same atop the saddle, each move sending sharp jabs of pain up his lower back. A gracious remnant of the wounds suffered in Carcon during the interrogation.
Scene type
Pursuit / Obstacle
POV
Lotar (third close)
Values at stake
Freedom ↔ Capture
Opening polarity
− Pursued, exposed on the road
Closing polarity
? Decision deferred (the well, ahead)
Turning point
The well being crowded with soldiers and priests
Functional core
Earns place: dual-clock open. Active chase plus past trauma plus a curiosity (the rat) that promises more than chase pacing alone could carry.
The craft library
The model does not invent advice. It works from the craft books working novelists use.
Every analysis is grounded in a curated library of craft books on structure, emotion, reader psychology and prose. The system retrieves the relevant pages before it writes a single line of feedback.
Scene and story structureStructural diagnosis at scene and global level. The skeleton on which the rest hangs.
Emotional craftWhere felt experience comes from. How interior states translate to the page.
Reader psychologyWhy brains stay in a chapter. The cognitive contract between writer and reader.
Character and moral arcThe gap between what a character wants and what they need, and how the story forces the choice.
Beats and pacingBeat-mapping for genre fiction. Useful for diagnostics on commercial pacing.
Sentence craftSentence-level attention. The line-edit lens, calibrated against literary prose.
Built by an author who ships
I made the tool I wanted on my own desk first.
I am Paolo Danese. I wrote five novels in the Portal Wars Saga, all published on Amazon and beyond. I built StoryaEdit because the developmental notes I wanted on my own drafts did not exist as a tool. Now they do.
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No. Submitted text is sent to the model for the analysis and not retained for training. The retrieval library is read-only on our side. If you want analyses removed, email me and I will delete them.
Will it rewrite my prose for me?
No. StoryaEdit returns analysis. It points at problems, names them, and explains why a developmental editor would flag them. The writing stays yours.
Does it work for my genre?
Yes for most fiction genres. The structural framework is genre-aware: epic fantasy, mystery, literary, science fiction, thriller, romance. Genres that rely heavily on convention check (cozy, erotica) are still useful, but the structural lens fits them only partly.
How is this different from ProWritingAid or Sudowrite?
ProWritingAid and Grammarly operate at the sentence level. They tell you your prose is wordy. Sudowrite is a generation tool. StoryaEdit operates at the chapter and scene level: structure, pacing, payoff, polarity shifts, turning points. The category is developmental editing, not grammar or generation.
Refunds?
Yes. Email me. I will refund the last paid month, no argument. The free tier exists so you can decide before you pay.