2:36 · Actual app run

Ruthless Editor: review one passage

Follow a real run using Death Takes a Honeymoon by Kat Summers, then try the task with your own material.

Edited actual app captures and editorial guide cards · AI narration · English captions · Not an uninterrupted screen recording.

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Step 1

Name the manuscript and preserve the original

Begin with a short excerpt and give the saved manuscript a useful name. This example reviews 99 words from Death Takes a Honeymoon by Kat Summers. It does not demonstrate whole-book coverage. Keep the current original separately.

Step 2

Choose provider and model

Select an available model and a saved connection or temporary browser key. This run used OpenAI / gpt-4.1-mini. Provider billing applies to analysis requests; longer manuscripts can require multiple requests.

Step 3

Set intent and protected phrases

Specify genre, point of view, deliberate fragments and repetition. The brief preserves Corvus’s comic voice. Proposals overlapping a protected phrase cannot be accepted. These controls supplement your judgment.

Step 4

Analyze and read in context

Check segment and word coverage. Open View source passage, then compare the original, proposed replacement and reason. The actual result offered one change from parentheses to em dashes.

Step 5

Make a deliberate decision

Accept edit changes the edited draft; Undo decision restores the original wording and returns the proposal to pending. The demo then rejects this optional punctuation change and records why the parenthetical pause suits the voice.

Step 6

Export the right files

Export the review report for decisions, an editable backup for workspace recovery, and original/edited text for comparison. The two text exports match in this run because the only proposal was rejected. Plain text does not preserve Word formatting. Inspect the export before updating a writing project.