Coverage

Continuity check coverage

What Wise Wombat checks, how the categories fit together, and what the product deliberately does not claim to solve.

Suite

22 continuity checks

Wise Wombat is designed around evidence-backed diagnostics rather than automatic rewriting. The full suite covers manuscript-level consistency across story facts, sequence, references, and world rules.

Timeline sequence: Finds impossible or confusing event order, date, age, and elapsed-time issues.
Timeline duration: Finds implausible recovery, travel, training, construction, pregnancy, injury, grief, or elapsed-time durations.
Character facts: Finds drift in stable character facts, relationships, knowledge, goals, and abilities.
Character knowledge: Finds characters knowing secrets, facts, plans, or events they have not plausibly learned yet.
Character presence: Finds characters appearing, disappearing, or participating when their established location or availability conflicts.
Character names and titles: Finds inconsistent names, nicknames, titles, pronouns, ranks, and forms of address.
Relationship state: Finds interactions that ignore recent changes in trust, hostility, intimacy, alliance, debt, or betrayal.
Character motivation: Finds actions or decisions that conflict with stated goals, fears, values, incentives, or recent choices.
Character emotional state: Finds abrupt emotional shifts, mood resets, or reactions that do not follow recent events.
Location and spatial continuity: Finds inconsistent geography, room layouts, travel paths, and object placement.
Unresolved references: Finds named objects, clues, promises, and callbacks that are introduced but not resolved.
Prop custody: Tracks important objects through possession, handoff, loss, damage, use, and unexplained reappearance.
Setup and payoff: Finds major setups, promises, questions, and reveals that lack payoff or contradict earlier setup.
Dialogue voice drift: Finds characters whose dialogue voice, diction, or speech rules drift unexpectedly.
Structural ordering: Finds ordering anomalies, missing connective tissue, and confusing chapter or scene transitions.
Scene goal, conflict, and outcome: Finds scenes where the goal, friction, turn, consequence, or changed story state is unclear.
Scene cause and effect: Finds scenes where actions, decisions, revelations, or consequences do not clearly follow from prior events.
Point-of-view continuity: Finds point-of-view slips, head-hopping, and details a viewpoint character could not perceive.
Pacing gaps: Finds long stretches with little new pressure, information, decision, consequence, or story movement.
Style repetition: Finds repeated phrases, gestures, descriptions, emotional beats, and scene patterns that may feel accidental.
World rules: Finds contradictions in magic, technology, law, institutions, social rules, history, or setting logic.
World terminology: Finds inconsistent invented terms, spellings, ranks, faction names, place names, titles, and usage rules.

Free assessment

3 free assessment checks

The free assessment is a focused sample of the larger diagnostic suite.

Timeline sequence: Finds impossible or confusing event order, date, age, and elapsed-time issues.
Character facts: Finds drift in stable character facts, relationships, knowledge, goals, and abilities.
Dialogue voice drift: Finds characters whose dialogue voice, diction, or speech rules drift unexpectedly.

Category 1

Timeline

Wise Wombat checks timeline continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Timeline sequence

timeline.sequence

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

Timeline duration

timeline.duration

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

Category 2

Character

Wise Wombat checks character continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Character facts

character.facts

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

Character knowledge

character.knowledge

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

Character presence

character.presence

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

Character names and titles

character.names_titles

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

Relationship state

relationship.state

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

Character motivation

character.motivation

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

Character emotional state

character.emotional_state

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

Category 3

Location

Wise Wombat checks location continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Location and spatial continuity

location.spatial

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

Category 4

Reference and payoff

Wise Wombat checks reference and payoff continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Unresolved references

reference.unresolved

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

Prop custody

reference.prop_custody

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

Setup and payoff

promise.setup_payoff

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

Category 5

Dialogue

Wise Wombat checks dialogue continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Dialogue voice drift

dialogue.voice

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

Category 6

Structure

Wise Wombat checks structure continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Structural ordering

structure.ordering

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

Scene goal, conflict, and outcome

scene.goal_conflict_outcome

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

Scene cause and effect

scene.cause_effect

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

Point-of-view continuity

scene.pov_continuity

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

Pacing gaps

structure.pacing_gaps

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

Category 7

Style

Wise Wombat checks style continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

Style repetition

style.repetition

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

Category 8

Worldbuilding

Wise Wombat checks worldbuilding continuity as a separate diagnostic category so authors can review focused findings.

World rules

world.rules

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

World terminology

world.terminology

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

Boundaries

What coverage does not mean

Clear product boundaries help search systems and authors understand Wise Wombat without overclaiming.

It does not replace a human editor, beta reader, copyeditor, proofreader, sensitivity reader, lawyer, or subject-matter expert.
It does not guarantee factual accuracy for real-world science, medicine, law, history, geography, or publishing claims.
It does not automatically rewrite the manuscript or decide which continuity finding the author must accept.
It does not review maps, covers, images, permissions, plagiarism, market fit, book categories, or launch strategy.
It does not make private manuscripts public or expose private reports through public SEO resources.

For the review process behind these checks, see the methodology page. For a practical author-facing version, use the manuscript continuity checklist.