The AutoCrit Summary Report

This short support post shows you how to understand the AutoCrit Summary Report.

AutoCrit’s Summary Report brings several key areas of your manuscript analysis together in one place, giving you a quick overview of your writing and helping you identify where you may want to focus next.

Open the file you want to analyze in AutoCrit.

At the top of the editor, click Analysis, then select Summary Report.

Your Summary Report will display your Overall Score along with scores for several important editing categories.

The first thing to remember is that AutoCrit’s Overall Score is not a judgment of the quality of your writing.

A higher score generally means AutoCrit has identified fewer potential issues based on its analysis, but there is no score that guarantees a manuscript is good, finished, or ready for publication.

Fiction is creative, and there will always be situations where breaking from common writing patterns is the right choice for your story.

Your score is designed to work as a guide. For example, after making edits based on AutoCrit’s recommendations, you may notice your Overall Score increase slightly.

This can help you see whether your revisions are moving your manuscript in the direction you intended.

AutoCrit compares your manuscript against patterns found within your selected genre.

By default, AutoCrit uses General Fiction as your comparison genre, but you can select another available genre that more closely matches your manuscript.

Because different genres have different writing patterns and expectations, changing your selected genre may also change your Summary Report scores.

Your genre comparison should be treated as a useful reference point rather than a set of rules your manuscript must follow.

The Summary Report also provides individual scores for several areas of your manuscript:

These category scores can help you quickly identify which areas of your manuscript may benefit most from additional attention.

If one category is noticeably lower than the others, you can use the related AutoCrit reports to explore that area in more detail.

There is no perfect AutoCrit score, and aiming for 100% is not recommended.

Trying to eliminate every flagged issue can sometimes remove intentional stylistic choices or change the voice of your manuscript.

Instead, use your scores to track progress, identify areas worth reviewing, and help guide your editing decisions.

Most importantly, remember that you are the author. AutoCrit provides analysis and recommendations, but you decide which suggestions are right for your story.