Proof It When You Are Ready. Change Only What You Accept.

Running a pass

The Proofing Pass runs from your book's Edit page. Tick the chapters you want checked and press "Run proof". Each finding shows the passage, what is wrong and its severity, and you apply or dismiss it; nothing changes until you apply it.

If the chapters are clean, the page says so: "Clean pass — nothing to fix in the chapters you picked." Nothing is rewritten on the way. Every change to your text is one you clicked.

Chapter states and results

Each book has an Edit page for the finishing work. The "Proof run" card lets you tick chapters, or "Select all", and shows each chapter's state: Not started, Proofing…, Done, Error or Up to date. You can leave while it runs; a notification tells you when it is finished.

Its suggestions come back with Apply and Dismiss and a running count of what is open and what you applied. A clean result says so plainly. If some chapters could not be checked, the page says it cannot tell you those chapters are clean, rather than implying they are.

Voice and canon

Two checks make this a novelist's proofreader. Voice means the pass reads your own style, tone, point of view and pacing first and treats that as the baseline. It flags places where you drift from yourself, not places where you differ from a textbook, and it leaves dialogue alone: character voice is protected.

Canon means the pass reads your prose against your Story Hub. Names there count as correct spellings, and it marks as Critical the things a copy editor is paid to catch: a name that drifts ("Elara" becoming "Ellara"), a pronoun or role that contradicts the profile, a trait that changes, a place described two ways, a broken rule of your world, an event out of order on your timeline.

Settings

On the Edit page, "Proofing settings" opens Proofreading Settings, which apply to all your books. Two switches control the layers: Editing (style, typography, semantics) and Proofreading (grammar, spelling, punctuation). Picky Mode asks for more detailed suggestions. A Personal Dictionary holds the words that should never be flagged, which for most novelists means every invented name. The Style & Tone tab turns tone, clarity, engagement and delivery suggestions on or off, and each category has its own rule switches. The proofing language follows the book's language setting.