The style sheet your editor would otherwise spend an evening typing.
A fiction style sheet is mostly administration: the canonical spelling of every name, place, faction and invented term, which shorter names belong to which longer ones, where each one arrives and is last seen, and which spellings the manuscript has already settled. All of that is already in the scan. This is that half of the sheet, drafted, so the editorial half is what the time goes on.
Try it freeAssembled from one scan.
Canonical form, not our opinion
Each entry leads with the form the manuscript uses most often, and the other forms are printed beside it with their counts. Where there is no majority - the book writes it both ways about equally - the line says so rather than picking, because that is a decision the book never made and not a typo to correct.
Aliases folded in
A short name sitting inside a longer one is listed under the longer one, from the same pairs the alias detector reports. Pairs you have already dismissed are gone. Two spellings close enough to be one name are not treated as an alias: those go to the conflicts list instead.
Conflicts gathered at the foot
Everything the sheet will not decide for you in one place: names close enough to confuse, capitalisation and hyphenation with no majority form, house-style rules not applied throughout, and a spelling standard the book has not settled.
Whichever format they asked for
The same eight the other documents offer: Word, HTML, EPUB, print, a web snippet, plain text, CSV and JSON. An editor who wants it in a spreadsheet gets one row per entry.
Who it is for.
Filling in the reference half of a style sheet from what the book already does, rather than from memory.
The canon sheet you check book two against.
Briefing a proofreader who has never read the series.
Agreeing the spellings before two writers start on one world.
Questions about the style sheet.
Is this the same as a style sheet my editor would write?
It is the administrative half of one. The editorial decisions - tone, tense, how dialogue is punctuated, what your house prefers - are judgements about writing and this does not attempt them. What it does is arrive with every name, spelling and count already typed up, which is the part that takes the evening.
Does it decide which spelling is correct?
It names the one your manuscript uses most often and prints the alternatives with their counts beside it. Where the split is near even it says the book has not settled rather than choosing. Nothing is changed in your file either way.
Can I use it with PerfectIt or another style checker?
Yes, and that is the order that works: this tells you what your book's vocabulary actually is, and a style checker enforces the decisions you make from it. Export the sheet as CSV if you are typing the decisions into another tool.
Does it cost an extra scan?
No. It is drafted from the scan you already ran.
Other features.
Book handoff pack
The four documents your editor, your next book, your narrator and your readers each need.
Learn more →Pronunciation guide
Every name a narrator would hesitate over, split into syllables with the stress marked.
Learn more →Reader editions
One glossary, five finished formats.
Learn more →Draft the style sheet from your own manuscript.
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