Continuity check coverage

Finds impossible or confusing event order, date, age, and elapsed-time issues.

Finds implausible recovery, travel, training, construction, pregnancy, injury, grief, or elapsed-time durations.

Finds overt temporal or dramatic signposting phrases that may telegraph turns.

Finds overly linear passages where flashback, intercutting, delayed disclosure, or time complexity may be absent.

Finds drift in stable character facts, relationships, knowledge, goals, and abilities.

Finds characters knowing secrets, facts, plans, or events they have not plausibly learned yet.

Finds characters appearing, disappearing, or participating when their established location or availability conflicts.

Finds inconsistent names, nicknames, titles, pronouns, ranks, and forms of address.

Finds interactions that ignore recent changes in trust, hostility, intimacy, alliance, debt, or betrayal.

Finds actions or decisions that conflict with stated goals, fears, values, incentives, or recent choices.

Finds abrupt emotional shifts, mood resets, or reactions that do not follow recent events.

Finds protagonist choices framed as too clean, morally obvious, or consequence-light.

Finds character presentation that relies on external description instead of wants, thoughts, pressure, or interiority.

Finds named supporting characters who function as flat archetypes instead of specific people with wants.

Finds inconsistent geography, room layouts, travel paths, and object placement.

Finds named objects, clues, promises, and callbacks that are introduced but not resolved.

Tracks important objects through possession, handoff, loss, damage, use, and unexplained reappearance.

Finds major setups, promises, questions, and reveals that lack payoff or contradict earlier setup.

Finds suspense that is announced by narration instead of built through withheld information, irony, or dramatic pressure.

Finds characters whose dialogue voice, diction, or speech rules drift unexpectedly.

Finds multi-character scenes with very little quoted dialogue relative to narration.

Finds ordering anomalies, missing connective tissue, and confusing chapter or scene transitions.

Finds scenes where the goal, friction, turn, consequence, or changed story state is unclear.

Finds scenes where actions, decisions, revelations, or consequences do not clearly follow from prior events.

Finds point-of-view slips, head-hopping, and details a viewpoint character could not perceive.

Finds long stretches with little new pressure, information, decision, consequence, or story movement.

Finds likely focalization switches or mixed pronoun frames inside a scene.

Finds stretches where the plot is unusually tidy, single-track, and lacking competing threads.

Finds flat stakes or tension curves where events do not build across a scene or chapter.

Finds conflicts that resolve too neatly, cleanly, or consequence-free.

Finds dream, vision, or hallucination sequences that recur heavily or do not earn their place.

Finds repeated phrases, gestures, descriptions, emotional beats, and scene patterns that may feel accidental.

Finds likely misspellings, typos, homophone slips, and inconsistent standard-word spellings.

Finds likely grammar, agreement, tense, punctuation, and sentence-mechanics issues.

Finds chapters where sentence lengths cluster too tightly around a mean.

Finds chapters where paragraph lengths are unusually uniform.

Finds chapters with high em dash usage relative to word count.

Finds chapters with high semicolon usage relative to word count.

Finds chapters with a high rate of -ly adverbs after common false positives are excluded.

Finds chapters with dense repeated simile markers.

Finds chapters with high use of filter verbs that can create narrative distance.

Finds chapters where the same non-name content word recurs heavily.

Finds passages that state or explain their theme instead of letting action and subtext carry it.

Finds contradictions in magic, technology, law, institutions, social rules, history, or setting logic.

Finds inconsistent invented terms, spellings, ranks, faction names, place names, titles, and usage rules.