Expand the Sudowrite Feedback Beta Reader Function

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The Sudowrite Beta feature is awesome! I love getting preliminary feedback on various areas of my work. However, the Beta Reader is currently limited to only 10K. It would be great if it could be expanded to critique a complete manuscript. Because of this limitation, I sought out other editing software that could give a "subjective" Sudowrite beta reader type of critique on all areas of the story/novel, making it more of a developmental critique (deep dive into plot, pacing, characterization, dialogue, etc).

All of the services unfortunately fell short, as they'd give high level "objective" views of the novel without clear guidance on what areas the writer should consider revising (with examples). None had the value of a Sudowrite beta read! Also additionally, these services included comparisons of your book to a similar author/genre. So in a nutshell, I'd envision a Sudowrite expansion to include:

beta read critique of a complete manuscript (>10K) including examples from writer's text
developmental editing of various aspects of the story/novel (deep dive into plot, pacing, characterization, dialogue, etc) with these areas organized into standard sections
overview comparison of similar author and/or genre

Thank you!

2 years ago

I think this request may be a little overloaded with three different requests. Extending the existing feature to simply look at more words ie >10K would be my priority. For this to be truly useful, I'd say 50K would hit most users, but 100K would be good if possible :) If cost is a concern, I think for something like this that's not done often, it might be fine to do a 2x word count for longer stories.

2 years ago (edited)

amit

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The ability to break up the Feedback for Full stories vs Chapters

When you're working on a novel, you split it into Chapters. The Feedback should reflect that. If I'm working on a Chapter, I want feedback on that. Then the Feedback should state what it thinks (likes, dislikes), ask if more is coming in the XYZ area, then suggest the normal things to add. There should be two modes of feedback. * Chapter mode (one document) focuses only on that information instead of a whole story. It will have to assume other information will be in other chapters, and details, conversations, the scene is complete and engaging) * Full Story mode (multiple documents) transitions between scenes are complete, not using words too many times or repeating the same information multiple times, checking readability and engagement in the whole store. Also, 10K words for Feedback is limiting when an average chapter is between 3 to 5K words. It would be nice to do phased Feedback to prevent resource overload of the platform, so the results are of each 5K words phased Feedback is referenced as it does the next Feedback if a whole novel is reviewed.

leanna 1 year ago Feature suggestion

a year ago

amit

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Increase word limit for feedback feature

Having a 10k word limit on sudoreaders feedback makes it difficult to get beta reader input for a novel of 80k words. I had to dump small chunks into the feature and I kept getting feedback concerning lack of character depth, unresolved plotlines, and readers confused about the dialog. It's a wish, probably hampered by your current computer power, but sure would be nice!

brian_kern 1 year ago Feature suggestion

a year ago

amit

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Feedback

I would love it if feedback could simulate a particular demographic.

1 year ago Feature suggestion

a year ago

vanessa_panlasigui

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Feedback on meaningful sections of text (or meaningful feedback on short sections)

The feedback feature can only work with a short section of text without getting very confused and off topic. Because the sections offered for feedback are so short, they're out of context, meaning that most of the feedback is about what's lacking in that short sample of the text - fuller character or setting details, for example. It would be good if the feedback feature could either evaluate a full text properly, or limit itself to commenting in detail on the sample of text, with the understanding that it's taken out of context.

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