Chapter 5: The trial begins in ten days. Chapter 8: Two weeks later, Mara says the trial starts tomorrow.
Timeline contradiction
Before and after: a deadline that moves
A short demo showing how a deadline contradiction can be rewritten after a continuity finding.
Example
Before, finding, after
The revised version is one possible author decision, not an automatic rewrite.
The elapsed time exceeds the original deadline unless the trial was postponed, the first date was wrong, or the later scene happens sooner.
Chapter 5: The trial begins in three weeks. Chapter 8: Two weeks later, Mara says the trial starts tomorrow.
Why it works
What changed
The revised date preserves the later scene's urgency without breaking the elapsed-time math.
- Find every mention of the trial deadline.
- Choose the canonical date.
- Update countdown language and character urgency around that date.
Related
Explore the continuity category
These pages explain the diagnostic category behind the demo.