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Run the Full Manuscript Revision Passes
Also useful for: people in Creative
Run your completed draft through separate revision passes for promise, structure, chapter purpose, logic, continuity, pace, voice, evidence, and sentence clarity. Make expensive decisions before you spend time polishing pages.
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Use this when
Use this after you have a complete draft and before you begin a full rewrite, line edit, copyedit, or outside handoff. You can also use it when repeated revisions have made the manuscript busier without making it stronger.
You'll need
- Completed manuscript
- Manuscript type
- Book promise
- Intended reader
- Genre or market category
- Nonnegotiable material
- Known concerns
- Revision constraints
- Evidence standard
You'll get
- A stated promise decision, a complete structural map, a keep-cut-move-merge-split-rewrite decision for every major section, a continuity ledger, an evidence ledger, a list of protected strengths, and a dependency-ordered revision plan
- You can identify your next five actions without rereading the full diagnosis.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A stated promise decision, a complete structural map, a keep-cut-move-merge-split-rewrite decision for every major section, a continuity ledger, an evidence ledger, a list of protected strengths, and a dependency-ordered revision plan
- You can identify your next five actions without rereading the full diagnosis.
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
You provide a 72,000-word narrative nonfiction manuscript with 12 chapters. Your book promises to show why community projects stall and how local leaders can restart them. You are writing for first-time project leads. You must retain three interview-based case studies, reduce the draft to about 65,000 words, and deliver the revision in eight weeks. You suspect the middle repeats itself and the practical framework appears too late.
Sample assembled prompt
You receive an executive diagnosis showing... Your structural map recommends moving the... Your continuity ledger identifies inconsistent project... Your evidence ledger flags six statistics,... Your master plan schedules structural moves...