It helps authors catch story logic issues before beta readers, copyeditors, proofreaders, or production teams inherit them.
Glossary term
Continuity pass
A continuity pass is a focused review for internal consistency before later editorial or production work.
Definition
What continuity pass means
A continuity pass reads across the manuscript for contradictions in time, character facts, relationships, setting, objects, world rules, and promises to the reader.
After moving three chapters, an author runs a continuity pass to check whether travel time, emotional state, and clue order still make sense.
Wise Wombat is designed as a repeatable continuity pass that returns evidence-backed findings for author review.
Related
Related continuity terms
These terms often appear together during manuscript revision.
Manuscript continuity
Manuscript continuity is the internal consistency of a draft across time, character facts, locations, references, structure, and world rules.
Timeline contradiction
A timeline contradiction is a conflict in event order, dates, ages, elapsed time, travel time, or recovery time.
Series continuity
Series continuity is the consistency of characters, timelines, world rules, terminology, and long-running promises across connected books.