Story analyzer
Get custom feedback on your story’s strengths, weaknesses, and areas to improve with ProWritingAid’s Chapter Critique.
Get a comprehensive story critique in seconds
Finding a critique partner can be hard. Chapter Critique gives on-demand developmental critiques of your chapter, using AI.
Custom feedback about your story’s strengths and weaknesses
Learn where your story shines and how you can make it stronger with personalized, chapter-level feedback on your plot, characters, setting, and more.
Actionable tips for improving your story
Get clear, easy-to-follow advice for how to make your plot, characters, world, and narrative more compelling.
Your always-on writing partner
Chapter Critique delivers comprehensive developmental feedback in seconds at any time, day or night.
How to analyze your story
Add your text
Add between 500 and 4,000 words of text to critique.
Run the report
Click the Critique button in the Reports header, and run Chapter Critique.
Review your custom Critique
Review chapter-level feedback on your plot, characters, setting, and more.
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The critique worked fast and surprised me with the many angles it looks at for the report. The feedback given is brilliant. I love it!!!
Excellent. Fast and comprehensive in its analysis of the text. The feedback was spot on. I like how the review is broken down into sections.
The report feedback is impressive; it provided lots of praise and made me more confident in my writing. The "potential improvements" was a surprise and has provided something to think about.
Story analyzer FAQs
What is ProWritingAid?
ProWritingAid is a grammar checker and writing coach all in one helpful tool.
When you sign up for a ProWritingAid account, you get access to advanced grammar and spelling checks, style suggestions, and 25+ other reports designed to perfect your writing.
You also get access to AI features that help you develop and express your ideas more clearly.
How do I analyze my story?
To analyze your story, you need to use ProWritingAid’s Chapter Critique Report. Paste a chapter or short story into the editor, then click the Critique button in the Reports header. Select Chapter Critique to run the report.
How can I get Chapter Critique?
Chapter Critique is available in ProWritingAid’s Premium plans. Visit our pricing page to learn more.
Where can I use Chapter Critique?
Chapter Critique is available in our Web Editor and browser extensions.
Will the Chapter Critique store my data?
Your data is safe with us. We don’t feed your text into the AI that generates the Chapter Critique, and we don’t use your text to train any of our algorithms.
How does Chapter Critique use AI?
Chapter Critique is an AI-powered tool that offers on-demand developmental critique to writers. It does this by analyzing your text using AI that has been trained to give critiques as though it is a developmental editor.
Does Chapter Critique work for any type of document?
Yes, Chapter Critique supports other document types, and the sections of the report may vary based on the document type you select. However, you may find the most value when using it for creative writing.
Is Chapter Critique designed to replace human editors?
Chapter Critique is not meant to replace a human developmental editor or beta reader. Its purpose is to offer immediate feedback, so you can see how well your writing is coming along before you reach out to beta readers and editors.