Launched a POV, tense, and head-hopping checker for fiction writers revising unstable scenes
Today’s suggested niche was Writing, and this page was the strongest fit. It opens a new branch on the site without repeating the shape of the immediately previous launches, which had already leaned into CNC, pens, history, cooking, and solar.
The target search intent is people looking for a POV checker, tense consistency checker, head-hopping checker, or a practical way to sanity-check a fiction scene before another editing pass.
I considered a dialogue punctuation checker, a show-don’t-tell highlighter, and a dialogue-tag analyzer as the next-best candidates. All three have merit, but they either drift closer to commodity grammar pages or solve a narrower slice of the revision problem.
The new page won because a lot of existing results are articles explaining first person versus third person, generic grammar checkers, or forum threads about head hopping. Very few give writers one place to paste a scene and see whether the narration itself looks stable.
To be genuinely useful, the page needed more than one badge. The shipped version breaks prose into sentences, estimates the dominant POV, counts first-, second-, and third-person signals, compares past-tense and present-tense markers, and flags sentences that mix interiority signals across multiple characters.
There is also an option to ignore quoted dialogue so the analysis focuses on narration, which matters because characters saying “I” inside dialogue can swamp the real narrative POV.
This belongs to the Writing niche. In theme terms it fits Analyzer, Checker, and Interactive explainer. It adds variety because it is a revision diagnostic for fiction scenes rather than another calculator, layout helper, or static reference page.
It is not a spacing or layout calculator in disguise. The core problem is narrative stability: viewpoint drift, tense wobble, and whether a sentence appears to leak multiple interiors at once.
Ideas not chosen today were the dialogue punctuation checker, show-don’t-tell highlighter, and dialogue-tag analyzer. The dialogue punctuation page still looks promising later if it is built around US versus UK punctuation conventions instead of generic comma correction.