One paste, every analyzer. The workbench runs the style report, the readability scores, the dialogue punctuation check and the dangling-opener check in a single pass, then draws what the numbers cannot say: paragraph pacing, sentence rhythm, the dialogue-to-narration balance and who is on the page. Save a report under a chapter title, paste the next draft, and see exactly what moved.
One paste runs the style analyzer, the readability checker, the dialogue punctuation checker and the dangling-opener check together, then draws the pacing report. Nothing you paste is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.
Your text never leaves this page. Every engine runs in your browser: no upload, no server, no storage, no AI reading your manuscript. Saved and emailed reports carry counts and rates only.
The workbench does not reimplement anything. Each number comes from the engine of the standalone tool it links to, so a count here always matches the count there, and the deep line-by-line view is one click away. Where two tools could have answered the same question, one engine was chosen and the other is not consulted: the Manuscript Style Analyzer's banks are the single source for cliches, filler and passive voice.
Cliches, word echoes, filler, passive voice, sentence rhythm
Engine: Manuscript Style Analyzer. The site's canonical style engine: a 330-phrase cliche bank, the shared filler word banks, the participle-based passive scan and the sentence-length statistics. One engine, so the workbench and the analyzer always agree.
Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid grade
Engine: Readability Checker. The published 1948 and 1975 formulas over the checker's own syllable heuristic, exactly as the standalone page computes them.
Dialogue punctuation flags
Engine: Dialogue Punctuation Checker. Comma-before-tag, period-before-tag, punctuation outside the closing quote and capitalisation slips, in US or UK convention. Rules sourced from the Chicago Manual of Style and AP Stylebook.
Dangling openers
Engine: Grammar & Style Checker. The checker's participial-opener rule, extracted into a shared module so both pages flag exactly the same sentences. These are prompts to check, never verdicts.
The headline word and sentence counts, and every per-1,000-words rate, use the style engine's tokenizer as the one denominator. The Flesch formulas keep their own splitter internally, exactly as the Readability Checker publishes them, which is why its word count can differ by a handful on the standalone page.
Paragraph pacing. One cell per paragraph, in reading order, shaded by length. Paragraphs split on blank lines; if your paste has none, each line break starts a paragraph. Long runs of dark cells are the stretches readers will feel as dense; long runs of light cells read fast. Neither is wrong. The strip shows you the shape so you can check it against the shape you intended.
Sentence rhythm. The same length buckets the Manuscript Style Analyzer reports, drawn as columns. A chapter that lives in one column reads as monotone whatever the column is.
Dialogue vs narration. The share of words inside quotation marks, using the dialogue checker's own quote-span finder. Scene-heavy chapters run high, interiority runs low, and the useful question is whether the balance matches the chapter's job.
Who is on the page. Repeated capitalized words that do not open a sentence: in fiction that is mostly character and place names. It is a frequency count, not name recognition, so titles like Mr and the odd sentence-medial word will appear. Skim past those.
Give a run a title, save the report, and the next time you paste a draft under the same title the workbench shows the change in every number: filler down 14, passive from 12% to 8%, reading ease up 3. Reports save free in this browser and hold counts and severity labels only, never your text.Writer's Toolkit Pro adds cross-device sync for the history, and the thresholds behind every severity label are published on theManuscript Style Analyzer page.
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