Structural Editing for Speculative Fiction That Agents Take Seriously
Diagnose what is breaking your story's architecture. Plot logic, character pressure, pacing, and world-system coherence. Fix the foundation before revisions waste months.
8 questions • ~3 minutes • Immediate structural recommendation
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Why Most Manuscripts Stall
Talent isn't the problem. Structure is. Even great writers get stuck in these three traps.
The Midpoint Sag
You have a killer opening and an epic ending, but Act II is a wandering mess of subplots that kill narrative momentum.
The Passive Protagonist
Things happen to your character rather than because of them. Agents stop reading when the hero stops driving the plot.
Worldbuilder's Disease
Your magic system is intricate, but it suffocates the story. Info-dumps masquerade as exposition.
The Refinery Process
We don't guess. We engineer.
Diagnose
We use our 4-point framework to identify exactly where your structure is failing.
Prescribe
We provide a specific architectural blueprint to fix the load-bearing walls of your story.
Refine
Only then do we polish the prose. Clarity follows structure, not the other way around.
The 4 Core Pillars of Narrative Integrity
Other editors check grammar. We check story architecture: the invisible foundation that determines whether your book works.
Plot Architecture
Does the structure hold weight?
Character Integrity
Do internal arcs drive external action?
World-System Logic
Is the setting consistent and consequential?
Pacing & Pressure
Does tension escalate effectively?
Architecture vs. Texture
We don't just talk about structural editing. Here's a transformation from our Tier 4 partnership flagship, Children of Aiyé.
Structural revision example. Line-level prose unchanged.
"Kọlá felt the weight of centuries as she walked. The shrine had always been sacred, though few remembered why. Her grandmother's voice echoed in her mind, warning of things best left undisturbed."
→ Passive, abstract, no stakes
"Blood on the shrine meant someone would die within a fortnight. Kọlá pressed her thumb against the iron blade until crimson beaded at the tip. Three drops. Grandmother said three was binding."
→ Active voice, specific stakes, immediate tension
This is what we do. This is what structural editing looks like.
Choose Your Level of Support
From quick checks to deep partnership.
Story Integrity Diagnostic™
Focused structural diagnostic of your opening pages.
Single-Pillar Structural Audit
Deep dive into one structural pillar.
Full Structural Edit
Full manuscript assessment across all 4 pillars.
Stop Guessing. Start Engineering.
Take our 3-minute diagnostic to discover exactly which structural load-bearing wall needs attention first.