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Do you have questions about the Author Dashboard, Marlowe 3.0, or the use of AI in fiction writing and editing? We’re happy to answer your questions! Drop us a line at [email protected]. — Alessandra, JD and the rest of the team
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Author voice & prose style
Overview Author voice and writing style can make or break a book’s success in the commercial marketplace. If you subscribe to Marlowe Pro, our AI will analyze the story’s author voice and prose style to assess whether the storytelling is clear and engaging. It will point out examples of where the writing could be tightened
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Points of concern
Overview When you’re ready to upload a work, our AI will analyze the story and spotlight areas of the manuscript that could be refined to increase clarity, resolve inconsistencies, and avoid scenes that seem forced or out of place. It will also review the work for any potential issues that might warrant a trigger warning
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Key recommendations
Overview When you’re ready to upload your work, our AI will provide a concise overview of the manuscript’s areas for improvement, focusing on key recommendations and impactful suggestions that could enhance its market potential. Subscribe to Marlowe Pro to see Marlowe’s key recommendations about your manuscript. GO PRO
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Theme analysis
Overview Our AI will analyze the primary and secondary themes found in your work and how it evolves through the narrative as the plot unfolds, particularly with respect to the major characters’ actions. Marlowe will also provide actionable ideas for additional action beats that would enhance the main themes. When you subscribe to Marlowe Pro
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Setting & world-building
Overview Our AI will analyze the main settings found in your work and assess whether the depictions of the settings and the world-building were handled effectively. Placement is also a key consideration. Does the world-building delay the action at the beginning of the story? Could some of the setting be communicated through dialogue rather than
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Conflict & emotional shifts
Overview Conflict — both external and internal — is central to effective storytelling. Our AI will analyze the main sources of conflict in your novel and assess whether the conflict is sufficiently strong, sustained, and central to the story. It will also look at how effectively the story makes use of narrative drive and its
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Overall assessment
Overview When you have a rough draft of your novel ready, upload it from your account page. If you’re a Marlowe Pro subscriber, within minutes you’ll receive our AI’s overall assessment of your manuscript and its advice on how to make your story ready for the marketplace. This section summarizes the novel’s strengths as well
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Clichés and hackneyed phrases
Overview A cliché refers to a phrase or expression that has become so commonplace through overuse that it no longer wields any impact. Using too many cliches can undermine the quality and originality of a story. A hackneyed phrase describes a term or expression that has become overused to the point of being trite and
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Character analysis
Overview When you’ve finished a draft of your novel, Marlowe Pro will perform an analysis of your story’s main characters and minor characters. Our AI will provide feedback on your main character, your antagonist, and other characters’ actions and motivations and assess the dynamics of the characters’ interactions. The analysis will also evaluate the protagonist’s
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Readability and sentence stats
Overview A lot of factors play a role in the success of a novel. One important factor is how accessible it is to average readers. Marlowe charts not only the number of words in your manuscript but also the average length of a sentence in your story. And it lists the ten longest sentences in
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Repetitive phrases
Overview After you upload your manuscript, Marlowe will identify all the repetitive phrases, or catch phrases, that have crept into your novel. In Marlowe Pro, you’ll also be able to call up comps to see how often your favorite authors use favorite phrases.
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