Prose Critique vs Newsroom Style

Prose Critique

By Haowjy (Creative Writing)

Get detailed, adversarial feedback on your fiction writing across voice, pacing, character, and clarity.

Newsroom Style

By James Anditis (Journalism)

Apply professional journalism style (AP, Chicago) to articles, press releases, and news copy.

Prose Critique

• Analyzes fiction drafts for plot logic, pacing issues, scene necessity, and stakes
• Evaluates character motivation, arc progression, and relationship dynamics for consistency
• Reviews voice quality, dialogue authenticity, POV discipline, and subtext
• Identifies line-level prose problems like rhythm, clarity, repetition, and show-vs-tell balance
• Checks continuity across facts, timeline, geography, and character states

Newsroom Style

• Applies AP Style rules for numbers, dates, titles, and attribution to your writing
• Converts informal drafts or notes into clean, publishable journalism-style copy
• Writes headlines and ledes (opening paragraphs) that follow newsroom conventions
• Flags common errors like incorrect attribution, wrong number formatting, or passive voice
• Reformats content to follow inverted pyramid structure with short paragraphs

Reach for Prose Critique when…

• You've finished a draft and need honest feedback on what's not working
• You're revising a novel or short story and want to focus on specific dimensions like character or pacing
• You need to know which structural issues to fix before polishing prose
• You want adversarial reading that challenges your assumptions rather than validates them

Reach for Newsroom Style when…

• You're writing a press release or media advisory and need it to sound professional
• You're editing an article or blog post to match journalism standards
• You need to convert interview notes or rough drafts into publishable copy
• You're creating news-style social media posts or headlines for your company