Feedback

Feedback reads your work and leaves comments in the margin, just like a real editor—except it also sees your Story Bible. That means when it tells you a scene is dragging or a character sounds off, it’s not basing that on generic writing rules. It knows your Characters, your Outline, and your whole story world. Its suggestions are specific to your story.

You can run Feedback on a single scene, a chapter, or your entire book. Choose from several built-in feedback types or create your own.

Feedback’s comments will appear as annotations in the margin of your document. Each comment includes a specific observation and a suggested next step—a rewrite, a question to consider, or a craft note to think through.

Note that if you use the Reorder this Menu option beneath More Tools… and move Feedback into your dropdown, it will persist your select-selected Feedback Type. (You can’t open the Feedback Type selection menu when the Feedback feature appears in the dropdown.) Meanwhile, if you find that you can’t see the comments Feedback left, be sure the Comments bar on the right side of the editor is expanded. (Click the little Comment icon in the upper right of the editor to expand or collapse the Comments bar. It will reflect the number of outstanding comments you have in any given document.)

The Feedback feature is exclusive to Professional and Max plans.

Feedback offers a range of built-in Feedback types, each tuned to a different phase of the editing process. Select from over a dozen specific Feedback types, ranging from Developmental to Line or Copy edits. You can also get more subjective notes from one of the AI Beta Readers. Can’t find the Feedback type you’re looking for? Create your own.

Feedback types include:

Sometimes you want notes that not even the best editor could give you, because they’re so specific to your work or process. Want to flag every scene where your protagonist’s grief surfaces? Every place where your antagonist is too sympathetic? Every instance of your personal prose pet peeve?

Create a custom Feedback type and Sudowrite will hunt for whatever you need across your draft.

If you’d like more of a subjective, human-like readthrough (rather than an editor’s perspective) try Feedback’s Beta Read option. It offers three distinct AI readers, each focused on a different dimension of your story:

Get their detailed notes one at a time, or all at once, at any point in your process.

Most comments Feedback leaves are immediately actionable, appearing in the comments bar in the Open state. Each note comes with a clear next step—a suggested rewrite, a question to consider, or a craft note to think through.

You can accept or dismiss individual comments as you work through them. Click the little arrow inside a circle on a proposed edit to Apply and Accept the Feedback. Alternatively, for comments left by Feedback with those proposed edits, clicking Accept will automatically apply the edit for you.

You can also click the X to Ignore the comment. If you Ignored something you want to revisit, click the Open dropdown menu in the top of the Comments bar to toggle to Ignored comments. You can also see Resolved comments here.

Sudowrite Chat and Feedback work great together. In Allow edits mode, you can ask Chat to use the Feedback feature on your document (or even multiple documents, if you’re ready to queue up a full manuscript review). Chat can also see comments left by Feedback, in case you’d like to discuss those.

Best of all, Chat can actually break outside of the Chat bar and be summoned inside any comment—whether it was left by Feedback, Chat, one of your human readers or yourself. Just use @sudowrite in the Reply to any comment to summon Sudowrite and discuss your next steps.