Manuscript analysis dashboard

Read deeper.
Edit smarter.
See the shape of your story.

Scribbly turns your manuscript into a dashboard — a chapter-by-chapter tension curve, every character and thread tracked across the draft, and a structural map of how it all holds together.

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Analyze
Restructure
Revision Plan
Act 1 Balcony Duel Tomb Resolution
Tension
Threads
Dialogue
poison
Fades in second half
the feud
Tracked
What Scribbly shows you

Structural data, pulled straight from your pages

Tension & pacing

Watch the curve, not just the outline

Every chapter gets a tension score, plotted chapter-by-chapter against your act breaks and plot anchors. Slack stretches and overcrowded peaks show up as shape, not guesswork — so you know exactly where the middle sags before a reader tells you.

Tension and pacing Romeo and Juliet — 24 chapters
Act 1 Balcony Duel Tomb Resolution
Peak tension at ch.21 — the Tomb scene — 96% of manuscript average.
Thread & character tracking

Nothing disappears without you noticing

Scribbly follows every named character and plot thread across the manuscript, chapter by chapter. A thread that's been quiet for six chapters gets flagged before your reader forgets it existed — so revisions target the actual gaps, not a hunch.

Thread tracking
The feud
Tracked
Friar's plan
Fading — 6ch gap
Poison vial
Tracked
Semantic map

See what your manuscript is actually about

Your highlighted passages cluster into a force-directed map by theme, weighted by how often they recur and how closely they connect. It's a picture of your manuscript's real preoccupations — not a synopsis you wrote, but what the pages add up to.

Semantic map
Love Fate Honor Secrecy
Node size scales with how many highlighted passages match that cluster's vocabulary.
Plot anchor detection

Know where your beats actually land

Scribbly locates your rising action, midpoint, climax, falling action, and resolution by percentage through the manuscript — so you can see at a glance whether your climax lands where the genre expects it to, or fires too early.

Plot anchors
Rising — 22%
Midpoint — Balcony
Falling — 78%
Climax — Duel, 64%
Resolution
Restructure & revision plan

A concrete plan, not just a diagnosis

Restructure mode turns everything Scribbly found into action: hub chapters that can recover multiple fading threads at once, and strategic insertion points for scenes your manuscript is missing — each with the specific impact of making the change.

Revision plan
Analyze Restructure Revision plan
Hub 12 Balcony reprise
High priority
Thread recovery
Reintroduce "Friar Laurence" (5-ch gap), "Nurse" (4-ch gap), "Rosaline" (7-ch gap) through this Balcony Reprise chapter.
Impact: recovers 3 tracked threads, secures the Balcony Reprise anchor.
Stabilizes the transition into ch.18 (Duel) and ch.21 (Tomb).
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Strategic insertion New content
Between 9 and 17
7-chapter silence — Act 1 to Act 2
The strategy
Re-establish "Friar Laurence".
The insight
"Friar Laurence" needs a check-in to maintain continuity across this 7-chapter silence.
And more

Also tracked, automatically

Repetition scanning

Flags overused words across chapters — a word spiking three times in Act 2 gets caught before a reader notices the tic.

Version comparison

Overlays Draft 1 and Draft 2 tension curves so you can see whether a revision actually raised the stakes, or just moved them.

Dialogue rhythm

Tracks the balance of dialogue versus prose scene by scene, so a manuscript that goes silent — or talky — for too long stands out.

Pricing

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