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Check Continuity Before Small Errors Spread
Also useful for: people in Creative, people in Writers
Review your manuscript at a defined checkpoint, test its internal facts against the pages, and build one continuity log that shows what to fix now and what to track later.
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Use this when
Use this after a section, act, chapter group, or full draft is complete. It is especially useful before structural revision, beta reading, copyediting, or any handoff where avoidable contradictions could weaken trust in your work.
You'll need
- Checkpoint and review scope
- Manuscript material
- Project baseline
- Existing continuity log
- Review priority
You'll get
- One continuity log containing every confirmed conflict, likely conflict, and open question found in the review scope
- Evidence for each entry, a severity level, a repair decision, and a downstream recheck
- You also have a source-of-truth sheet and a watch list ready for your next drafting checkpoint.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One continuity log containing every confirmed conflict, likely conflict, and open question found in the review scope
- Evidence for each entry, a severity level, a repair decision, and a downstream recheck
- You also have a source-of-truth sheet and a watch list ready for your next drafting checkpoint.
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
You are checking Chapters 1-8 of a mystery. Your baseline says Detective Lena Ortiz arrives in Harrow on Friday, injured her left wrist two weeks earlier, and hasn't met Elias before Chapter 5. Your pages describe Friday evening twice, show Lena driving three hours between scenes separated by ninety minutes, place a brace on her right wrist in Chapter 6, and have her recognize Elias's handwriting in Chapter 3. Your priority is timeline and character knowledge.
Sample assembled prompt
You receive four logged issues. C-001 is a critical timeline conflict... C-002 is a major travel conflict... C-003 is a minor physical-detail conflict... C-004 is a major knowledge conflict... Your repair order addresses the duplicated... Your watch list asks when Lena...