Why narrative statistics?

“Statistics” and “storytelling” sound like opposites. So why put them together?

Because revision is a problem of attention. A 90,000-word draft has thousands of small decisions baked into it, and you can only consciously re-read so much. The questions that matter most in a second draft are structural, and structure is exactly what’s hardest to see from inside the prose.

The questions numbers answer well

• Is the midpoint carrying tension, or is there a long flat stretch?
• Does every scene turn — does the emotional charge shift from start to end?
• Are your scenes connected by “therefore / but”, or by “and then”?
• Did a major character vanish for a third of the book?

Numbers don’t tell you what to write. They tell you where to look.

What we won’t do

We won’t grade your voice, flag “too many adverbs,” or push you toward a template. Taste is yours. Narrastat just makes the shape visible so your taste has something to work with.