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When should I run a continuity pass?
Run a continuity pass after major revisions, before beta readers, before copyedit, and again after any large fix that could affect story facts.
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What it means
Continuity checks are most valuable when the draft is stable enough for findings to be actionable but still early enough that larger fixes are not painfully expensive.
- Run after scene moves, new chapters, changed timelines, or character rewrites.
- Run before beta readers if you want human feedback focused on story experience.
- Run before copyedit so sentence-level polish does not happen before story logic is stable.
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