Novel Mage Feature
Novel Analytics
Craft metrics for your manuscript POV balance, dialogue ratio, pacing, show vs. tell, and overused words.
Novel Analytics turns your manuscript into numbers a human editor would eventually give you, but sooner: how much of each POV character's screen time you're actually giving them, the ratio of dialogue to narration per chapter, a show-vs-tell score, pacing across scenes, and the words and phrases you've leaned on without noticing.
These are the kind of patterns that are nearly invisible from inside a 90,000-word draft. You feel like a secondary character gets plenty of page time; the numbers might say they've had three scenes in the last six chapters. You think your action sequences move fast; the pacing chart might show four consecutive scenes opening with static description.
Novel Analytics doesn't tell you what to write it shows you what you already wrote, measured. What you do with that is still a craft decision, but it's an informed one instead of a guess.
Key benefits
- POV balance across every point-of-view character in the manuscript
- Dialogue-to-narration ratio, per chapter and across the whole book
- Show-vs-tell scoring to catch scenes leaning too hard on exposition
- Pacing view across scenes so slow or rushed stretches are visible
- Overused word and phrase detection the ones you can't see from inside the draft
How it works
Open Review from the writing toolbar and select Novel Analytics. Novel Mage scans the full manuscript (or a chapter range you choose) and renders the metrics as charts and flagged lists. Click through to any flagged phrase or imbalanced chapter to jump straight to it in the manuscript.
When to use it
A structural revision pass checking whether POV time matches the story's actual weight
Diagnosing why a chapter feels slow before a beta reader tells you
Cleaning up crutch words and phrases before a final polish
Comparing dialogue-heavy vs. narration-heavy chapters to balance pacing across the book
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Try Novel Analytics in Novel Mage
Novel Mage is $149 once lifetime access. Every feature including novel analytics is included. Fully offline, local AI support, your data stays on your machine.
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