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Notes on measurable manuscript revision

Short, practical articles about revising novels with feedback you can trace to the passage: tense switches, sentence rhythm, dialogue share and a style reference built from the manuscript itself. All examples use public-domain or synthetic texts.

What's new in Lixity: numbers you can compare, evidence that survives edits

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Documented comparability floors replace big-looking statistics from short chapters, evidence anchors now tolerate edits outside the quote (with an explicit re-pin), and the interface, research workspace and service logs are consolidated. What changed in Lixity 0.4.8.

Finding tense switches in a novel — and deciding which ones matter

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Readers notice tense breaks long before they can name them. This workflow article shows how paragraph-level profiles and a flagged-passage list turn that vague feeling into passages you can review one by one — and when a switch is deliberate.

A reference corridor from Effi Briest: measuring a draft against its own model

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A walkthrough of the public example analysis: how a self-calibrating reference (robust median/MAD, noise-adjusted deviations, FDR selection) describes where a manuscript changes — without turning measurements into verdicts.

New to Lixity? The first-look guide walks from install to the first passage in a few minutes; public-domain examples show finished analyses without installation.

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