Fiction DNA
What Fiction DNA finds in your novel.
Fiction DNA is a structured model of the whole book. Every finding is traceable to a specific passage in the manuscript.
Orientation
Structure
The novel seen whole, before any part of it is taken apart.
- Book Map
- An overview of the novel’s architecture: its structure, its arc, and how the parts stand in relation to the whole. This is the view the rest of the analysis hangs from.
Core analysis
How the book is built
- Characters & Relationships
- The cast, and how they connect, conflict and change across the book.
- Story Mechanics
- Time, events, revelations, scenes, plot and causality.
- World
- Setting and atmosphere — the places the book builds and the air they carry.
Craft analysis
How it is written
- Voice & Style
- Narrator, prose style, dialogue and character voice.
- Pacing & Chapters
- Pacing, chapter mechanics, and how chapters evolve across the novel.
Deeper analysis
What lies under the surface
- Character Intelligence
- What characters know, what they believe, and how they are psychologically constructed.
- Themes & Motifs
- Recurring ideas and images, and the pattern they make across the whole book.
Measured, not interpreted
- Text Metrics
- Deterministic measurements of the text. These are counted, not judged, and are reported separately from interpretive findings.
Verification
The check on the analysis
This is not more analysis. It is the pass that tests what the analysis claims, and records where it is unsure.
- Audit
- A systematic pass back over the findings.
- Uncertainties
- Where the analysis is provisional or contested.
- Evidence
- The passages that support each finding.
- Traceability
- A path from any finding back to the source text.
Final Fiction DNA
Integrated Fiction DNA
The findings drawn back together, closing on the same whole-book view the analysis opened with.
- Extended Synthesis
- The reviewed findings read together rather than area by area, with the connections between them made explicit.
- Final Fiction DNA
- The coherent, reviewed account of how the novel works — the deliverable the analysis exists to produce.