A free line-editing system: built for speculative fiction authors
Eight steps that’ll turn Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini into a sentence-level editor
All because no one can proofread their own work
You wrote the scene. Everything is clear in your head, and everything seems fine when you read it back. But there are traps there, waiting to trip your reader up.
Professional line editors can see those traps and help you remove them. But they’re expensive.
Books and courses can help you understand what those traps look like, but they can’t look at your sentences. Writing groups help too, but they’re not always available, and not every member there will have a line-editor’s eye.
This guide closes the gap.
Writing Triage is a free eight-step system that turns a £20-a-month AI subscription into a working line editor for your speculative fiction.
I’ll be clear. It won’t help you plot. It won’t help your structure. But it’ll help you spot those traps in your sentences.
It’ll spot the sentence level habits that damage your story.
The filter words.
The throat-clearing openers.
The overcooked metaphors.
It’ll help your story land in your reader’s mind, and keep your readers glued to your writing.
(here’s a quick peek at the system.)
What’s in the bundle?
You get 4 files
Writing Triage (Start Here): the main guide.
This walks you through building a no-flattery, role-based, task-specific prompt. You’ll run this on a sample of your work.
This will create your own personalised ‘Writing Habits’ file. This will show the patterns running through your work; they’ll be named and illustrated with examples.
Writing Triage (The Prompts):
Copy and paste these guides into your AI system. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc, it’ll work with each one.
The Flowchart:
An easy one-page visual showing you how the eight-step process hangs together.
Notes on Writing: My special gift to you.
The unedited diagnostic AI produced when I ran this system on the opening of my novel Lightmaker. Eight recurring habits (or faults) of mine. Real examples, and problems I’m now fixing.
A note from me
I’m Kevin Elliott. I write speculative fiction. The novel Lightmaker, the short story collection Go When the Light Turns Red, and I’ve spent over a decade coaching SFF writers through workshops, critique groups, and one-on-one work.
The Writing Triage System is the system I built for myself, and it’s what I use, chapter by chapter, on my own work.
The Notes on Writing file is exactly what the AI said about my own work. It wasn’t comfortable reading, but it was useful reading.
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