AI Edit Selection Tools
Select any passage.
Let AI perfect it.
Highlight a sentence, a scene, a chapter — then choose your edit mode.
Structural, Copy, Developmental, and Line Edit modes rewrite with surgical precision, preserving your voice while elevating every word.
Structural Edit applied
Selected
The man walked into the room and looked around. He saw the window. He walked to it and looked out at the street below. He thought about what had happened. It made him feel bad.
✓Improved
The man drifted toward the window, drawn by nothing deliberate — just the pull of the light, the noise below. The street carried on without him. He pressed his palm flat against the cold glass and stayed there, letting the weight of the last hour settle into his bones.
✎ Copy
◈ Developmental
≡ Line
Edit Mode
Voice preserved · Depth added
Literary Fiction
Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Crime Thriller
Romance
YA
Non-Fiction
Academic
One tool.
Four layers of craft.
Most editors only catch surface errors. Our AI Edit goes deeper — analysing your selection at every level of the craft, from the architecture of ideas right down to the rhythm of individual sentences.
Choose the depth you need. Each mode generates a focused rewrite report in the sidebar, so you see exactly what changed and why — then you decide what to keep.
Ideas in the right order
Ensures your ideas flow logically, paragraphs are coherently built, and the argument or scene arc holds together from first word to last.
Grammar, clarity, precision
Catches grammatical errors, inconsistencies, unclear phrasing, and repetition — the polish layer that makes every sentence tight and clean.
Story, character, engagement
Evaluates the emotional arc, narrative tension, character motivation, and reader engagement — the big-picture edit that makes stories unforgettable.
Rhythm, word choice, flow
Works at sentence-level: refines word choice, paragraph breaks, sentence rhythm, and prose flow so every line reads with intention and music.
Three steps to a better passage.
No prompting expertise required. Select, choose your mode, and let the AI do the thinking — you make every final call.
Select Your Text
Use your mouse or keyboard to highlight any passage — a sentence, a paragraph, or an entire scene — inside your Manuscripts.ai editor.
Choose AI Edit
Click “AI Edit” under More Tools in the toolbar. Pick your edit mode — Structural, Copy, Developmental, or Line — and add an optional prompt for extra context.
Review the Report
The AI generates a re-edit report in your right sidebar. Reviewed changes are color-coded — AI suggestions in one colour, your original text in another.
Accept or Refine
Insert what resonates, discard what doesn’t. Run a second pass with a different mode. You always control the final manuscript.
Structural Edit
Reshape how your
ideas move through the page.
When the writing feels right but something is off in the sequence — the AI restructures the logical flow of your passage, ensuring paragraphs build on each other with intention and the reader is never lost.
- Reorders paragraphs for logical momentum
- Strengthens transitions between ideas
- Removes redundancy without cutting meaning
- Works on scenes, chapters, and arguments alike
🔷 Structure Improved
86/100
Original
He sat down. The reason he felt this way was because of what had happened in the morning. He hadn’t eaten breakfast. The room was quiet. He thought about leaving.
Restructured
He sat down into the quiet of the room. The morning had left its residue — a skipped breakfast, an unresolved wrong. He thought about leaving, but couldn’t yet say where.
Copy Edit
Grammar caught.
Clarity restored.
The AI scans your selection for grammatical errors, unclear phrasing, misused words, and repetition — and rewrites with precision. Your meaning stays intact. Everything else gets tightened.
- Grammar, punctuation, and agreement errors fixed
- Ambiguous pronouns and references resolved
- Overused words flagged and replaced
- Consistent tense and POV maintained
✎ 7 Issues Fixed
She were standing at the edge of the bridge, looking at the river and it was cold and dark and she thought about what her mother use to say.
After — Copy Edit
She stood at the edge of the bridge, watching the river run cold and dark below, and thought of what her mother used to say.
Developmental Edit
Story that pulls readers
deeper with every line.
The developmental layer goes beyond words and looks at what the passage is doing narratively — is the tension building? Is the character arc visible? Does the scene earn its place? The AI gives you actionable, specific feedback to strengthen the story itself.
- Narrative tension and pacing evaluated
- Character motivation and arc analysed
- Emotional impact scored and improved
- Plot consistency checked against your Lore Book
◈ Deep Story Review
73/100
81/100
Line Edit
Every sentence singing
at its highest pitch.
The most granular layer of editing. The AI rewrites at sentence level — adjusting word choice, rhythm, pacing, and breaks — so that the prose flows with the natural music of skilled human writing.
- Sentence rhythm and variation improved
- Weak verbs and clichés replaced
- Paragraph breaks optimised for pacing
- Sensory and specific language introduced
≡ Prose Refined
The dog ran quickly across the field. It was a very big field. The sun was going down and the sky looked nice.
After — Line Edit
The dog bolted across the field — wide as a held breath. Behind him, the sky bled its last amber into the treeline.