In the creative writing process, one of the most serious bottlenecks is obtaining reliable and consistent review. Gathering useful human-generated feedback is time and effort intensive. An automated method could greatly streamline the writing process, even if the feedback generated is not as robust as that created by human understanding, which is unfeasible to replicate. Limited but instantaneous feedback could accelerate the process of review and revision for a writer. In this paper, a user-friendly web app called the Literary Analysis Tool is described, designed to assess the changing emotional content of narrative prose, along with other properties of the text. This tool was demoed for a small audience of writers, and their feedback suggests the potential for forms of automated writing assessment oriented to assist a creative writer in assessing the content of their story in objective terms.

Recommended Citation: Grimsman A., Kline D., Guinn C., Vetter R., (2014). Literary Analysis Tool: Text Analytics in a Creative Writing Context. UNCW MS CSIS Proceedings. V. 8 , N. 5 .