Editorial AI Suite
Proofreader, Editorial Review for fiction and non-fiction, Prose Analysis, Manuscript Review and the AI Editor chat.
Guides
Exploring AI Editorial Review Features in Writing Desk
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0:00 Writing Desk's AI Editorial Review gives you fast, structured feedback on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
0:06 Along with the Research Assistant, Writing Desk uses AI for fast editorial feedback when you need it.
0:13 Select Analysis and click Editor.
0:19 Select Analyse, and the review panel analyses your prose across four editorial lenses, looking for strengths and areas for improvement.
0:29 Here, the protagonist is too passive. We need to think about how to make him more active.
0:35 Writing Desk doesn't rewrite your prose or tell you how to fix it. It highlights areas you might want to focus on.
0:43 You can ask follow-up questions in the chat to dig deeper into the feedback.
0:49 The core issue here is the protagonist spends most of the chapter reacting to external events.
0:56 It's important to recognise that Writing Desk's AI feedback will never replace human feedback.
1:02 But it's a good way to get quick editorial notes, so you can polish your writing as you go.
1:09 Download Writing Desk today to try the AI Editorial feature.
Stay Focused with Writing Desk's Research Assistant
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0:00 Writing Desk's Research Assistant helps you avoid distractions by providing quick, accurate research responses in the app.
0:07 Avoid rabbit holes with the Research Assistant. Click the small search icon, bottom left.
0:12 Ask anything and get a quick response based on your question in moments.
0:22 If you want more information, click Go Deeper.
0:26 Going deeper runs a full web search and pulls out a researched, sourced answer for your question.
0:32 Stay focused with Writing Desk's Research Assistant.
Questions
From the Analysis menu: Proofreader for spelling and grammar, AI Editor for Editorial Review, Prose for local prose analysis, and Manuscript for full-novel review. The AI Editor chat and the Research Assistant sit alongside them.
Proofreader handles spelling and grammar through LanguageTool, plus a Style tab covering filter words, weak intensifiers, adverb density, and repeated physical beats. Prose Analysis is a separate, fully local tool covering sentence-length variety, passive voice, telling versus showing, repeated openings, paragraph length, dialogue percentage, and reading ease, with no AI involved and no credit cost.
No, it's entirely local, pattern-based analysis. It's free and instant.
For fiction: Developmental, covering structure, pacing, arcs and scene purpose; Prose, covering repetition, crutch words, dialogue and clarity; Beta Reader, covering emotional response, engagement and confusion; and World Editor, covering lore consistency, worldbuilding and magic logic. For non-fiction documents: Argument, Clarity, Evidence and Voice.
Yes. Editorial Review on a document uses four lenses built for non-fiction: Argument, Clarity, Evidence and Voice. Tell it who the piece is for, and every lens reads it with that reader in mind. It reviews the whole document in one go. Get editorial feedback on non-fiction.
Each document review covers up to 10,000 words. The review panel tells you if a document is longer, before anything is charged.
The fiction lenses, for now. Documents (.md and .docx) get the non-fiction lenses.
Running all four lenses together is one review and one charge, and gives the best value. You can also run a single lens for a focused pass, which costs less than running all four.
A typical 4,000-word chapter costs 4 credits, and it scales from there with chapter length. See full pricing.
Yes. Results are cached per chapter and reused until you've edited the chapter significantly, so you're not charged again just to view the same analysis.
Enough that the previous review no longer reflects your current draft. Small tweaks won't trigger a new charge, but a meaningful rewrite of the chapter will.
A conversational chat with the AI about your current chapter, with context carried across the conversation as you go.
1 credit per message.
An AI research tool for background and worldbuilding questions. Your initial question is answered without a web search; it only searches the web when you explicitly choose to "go deeper."
A full-novel-level AI review that looks across your whole manuscript rather than one chapter at a time, surfacing feedback on things like character consistency, character motivation, and broader developmental notes on structure and pacing. As with all of Writing Desk's AI features, it's meant as fast, high-level guidance to sit alongside your own judgment, not a replacement for human feedback.
No. AI models can sometimes get things wrong. Use your own knowledge, judgment, and instincts alongside any AI editorial feedback. It's meant as fast, high-level guidance, not a replacement for human feedback.
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