Editors used to work for publishers. In that role, they reviewed manuscripts that authors submitted to publishers. Since the introduction of self-publishing, writers need editing services, too. But their editing needs are different than those of publishers. For one, writers want feedback long before they polish their manuscript. And they want detailed feedback, like for a character arc, their story world, or POV. And to get such feedback they don’t want to submit the entire manuscript – for which they pay something between $500 and $2,500 every time. With ECHOES you can get editorial feedback before you write your first draft for as low as $1.
Launch Date
The expected launch date for ECHOES beta is beginning of February.
ECHOES’ editorial services are automated. We call them Editettes, which shall show they are focussed precision edits. The first Editettes that will go live is the Eight Crafts Scene Analysis:
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EDITING 3.0: Detailed, Instant, Cost-effective, and AI-powered
ECHOES is the abbreviation of Eight Craft Holistic & Objective Editing Service. ECHOES is holistic because it takes all eight writing crafts into consideration: Big Idea, Genre, Narrative, Story Outline, Characterization, World Building, Scene Structure, and Prose.
ECHOES is objective because it uses the Eight Craft of Writing methodology.
ECHOES turns editing on its head. Before, editors adapted to writers – by reading their polished manuscripts. Now, writers can adapt to ECHOES, for example, by providing scenes through the Eight Crafts Scene Analysis form. This way, ECHOES can give editorial feedback on scene structure for as low as 5$.
Editorial Challenges
Authors face five editorial challenges:
- The danger of subjective feedback
- The fear of embarrassment
- Delayed feedback
- Lack of granularity
- High costs
- ECHOES uses the Eight Crafts of Writing methodology to keep editorial feedback objective and factual.
- ECHOES uses an AI trained on the Eight Crafts of Writing methodology to provide editorial feedback. No need to be embarrassed with an AI.
- ECHOES allows for fast feedback loops. You can get feedback from ECHOES on story ideas even prior to writing the first draft.
- ECHOES can give you feedback for a scene, a climax, narrative style, and even something as detailed as a chapter hook.
- ECHOES is cost-effective because it offers forms for the submission of story material. This increases focus and decreases the amount of text to be reviewed. AI brings down the costs even further.
Can AI Really Asses Stories?
You may feel that AI isn’t advanced enough to give editorial feedback on something as human as stories. The answer is yes and no.
To understand this issue better, we need to distinguish between story experience and story structure. Think of stories as icebergs. The tip of the iceberg is the story’s experience, which comprises the story’s content and the prose. The invisible body of the story iceberg represents story structure, which comprises the story’s big idea, narrative, genre, story outline, characterization, world building, and scene structure.
AI is not good at assessing story experience, because story experience is a human experience. AI has not sou and it can’t feel. But AI is great at assessing story structure, the major body of the story below the surface. For this reason, ECHOES dedicates itself to editorial feedback on story structure and leaves the editorial feedback on story experience to human editors.
In his book Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Robert McKee suggested that successful screenplay writers spend two-thirds of their time on authoring – that’s story structure – and one-third on writing – that’s story experience.
Hemingway meant the same thing when he said that writing is mostly architecture, not interior decoration – interior decoration being story experience.
Elizabeth Gilbert mentioned in an interview that she collected the material for Eat Pray Love for three years and wrote the book in about three months.
Apparently, it takes a more time and effort to build your story’s structure and weaving its experience. To engage a human editor for story structure costs a fortune. And editorial feedback will come far to late For this reason, many authors have neglected story structure editing. Until now. With ECHOES you can have early editorial feedback on story structure and that AI-cheap.
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The ECHOES Pipeline
In 2025, 2e’re planning to roll out the following editorial products:
- The Eight Crafts Big Idea Analysis: Get feedback on your what-if, story morale, or story promise
- The Eight Crafts character arc Analysis: Get feedback on your character arc
- The Eight Crafts World Building Analysis: Get feedback on your story world
- The Eight Crafts POV analysis: Check your manuscript for POV errors like head hopping
- The Eight Crafts Style Analysis: Check your chapters or manuscript on fill words, adverbs, unnecessary adjectives, passive voice, tells, cliches, wrong uses of as, redundancy, and stimulus-response mistakes.
- The Eight Crafts Dialogue Analysis: Get feedback on a dialogue.
Subscribe to ECHOES and receive a free copy of the guide How to Configure a CustomGPT to Reflect Your Author’s Voice:
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