Use this rubric for reviewing, polishing, or revising a LOFTER draft. Give concise findings first, then a revised passage or next-step plan.
Rate each area from 1 to 5 only when scoring is useful. Otherwise, use the checklist as a private guide.
- Premise clarity: the reader quickly understands the situation and promise.
- Character consistency: dialogue, choices, boundaries, and reactions fit the provided canon or user brief.
- Relationship logic: intimacy, conflict, teasing, or reconciliation develops through action rather than sudden declarations.
- Scene grounding: place, time, body position, props, and sensory detail are enough to prevent floating dialogue.
- Dialogue texture: speakers sound distinct and do not all use the same rhythm.
- Pacing: setup, turn, emotional peak, and aftertaste have enough room.
- Canon/world fit: details do not contradict known setting unless clearly AU.
- Form execution: the selected mode feels native, not prose chopped into a format.
- Tag/title fit: packaging matches the actual story and avoids misleading traffic grabs.
- Compliance: sensitive content, AI disclosure, copyright, and platform boundaries are handled conservatively.
- Title is a plot summary: shorten to a premise, mood, or hook.
- Characters explain feelings too directly: replace with action, silence, misdirection, or a line of dialogue.
- Generic appearance templates: remove stock descriptors and use canon-specific or scene-specific detail.
- Over-precise body detail: avoid odd numeric anatomy unless medically or plot relevant.
- Forced canon metaphors: remove repeated keyword metaphors and let canon appear through setting and choices.
- OOC leap: add a motivation bridge or change the reaction to fit the character.
- Same-voice dialogue: assign each speaker a sentence length, humor style, and avoidance pattern.
- Format bloat: for forum/chat/reaction pieces, make every entry either escalate, reveal, misdirect, or pay off.
When revising a user draft:
- List the top 3 issues that most affect reader experience.
- State the revision strategy in one paragraph.
- Provide the revised text or a focused sample.
- Add title/tag suggestions only if requested or publication is the next step.
This means better editorial specificity, not evasion.
- Replace repeated sentence frames.
- Cut generalized emotion labels.
- Add one concrete scene anchor per major beat.
- Preserve imperfections, hesitation, humor, and character-specific avoidance.
- Remove generic trope language unless it is deliberately in-universe.
- Do not polish away all voice into smooth sameness.