Feedback
Tell us the changes you’d like to see What do you like or dislike about the new Author Dashboard and Marlowe 3.0? We are constantly updating the user experience based on feedback from fellow authors. Beta testers, please fill out this short Google feedback form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUI2_8Isib_kfuhFguewgplqeLPLbjxbTthV3VmLK2RKA0Wg/viewform Or, if that’s too much hassle, just email us
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Points of concern
📌 Possible areas for improvement and potential issues {m2_dissonance} Trigger warnings {m2_trigger}
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Key recommendations
📌 Marlowe’s top recommendations for your story Here are the top recommendations Marlowe is making for your story: {m2_recommendations}
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Theme analysis
📌 Overview {m2_theme} 📌 Theme development {m2_theme_development} 📌 Revisions to consider {m2_theme_revisions}
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Setting & world-building
📌 Setting in your story {m2_setting} 📌 Revisions to consider {m2_setting_revisions}
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Conflict & emotional shifts
Overview Conflict — both external and internal — is central to effective storytelling. Used properly, conflict (when combined with character and other key elements) can propel a novel onto the bestseller list. But you can’t just pile on the conflict with no let-up, even if you’re writing a high-stakes thriller. As James Scott Bell notes
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Overall assessment
📌 Overview {m2_assessment} 📌 Story strengths {m2_strengths} 📌 Chief opportunities {m2_shortcomings} The Points of concern section in the Report below will provide additional suggestions on how to tighten the plotting, writing, or otherwise enhance the storytelling.
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Next steps
✅ Reality check A couple of parting thoughts: 💡 Share your ideas! Marlowe gets smarter every day, and you can help. We’d love to hear your ideas for which additional features or functionalities you’d like to see included in the Author Dashboard: 🧑🤝🧑 Follow us on social Come join the conversation! Follow us and we promise
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Adverbs and adjectives
📌 Frequent use of adverbs In the graph above, Marlowe detected some of your favorite adverbs and the number of times they occur in your manuscript. The shaded areas represent how often the word appears in bestselling titles. Let’s be clear: Not all adverbs should be avoided in a well-written work. However, there is often
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Repetitive phrases
📌 Overview We all have our so-called “crutch phrases” we rely on when to describe certain events, incidents, actions, reactions, fight scenes, and so on. While some of these phrases may be familiar to you, others might come as a surprise. Above, Marlowe has listed the most frequently used phrases in your novel. Many are
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Clichés and hackneyed phrases
Overview In the table above, Marlowe has identified phrases in your novel that could be considered clichés or hackneyed phrases. Your goal shouldn’t be to avoid them altogether — readers are comfortable with a familiar turn of phrase every now and then — but rather to limit their use so that your your writing is
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