Confusing space can weaken action, mystery clues, blocking, and reader trust in the physical world.
Glossary term
Location continuity
Location continuity is the consistency of rooms, geography, entrances, exits, distances, travel paths, and object placement.
Definition
What location continuity means
Location continuity keeps scenes spatially understandable. It includes building layouts, travel routes, distances, room details, weather, landmarks, entrances, exits, and where objects or characters are positioned.
A room has one door during a tense escape scene, but a second exit appears later with no explanation.
Wise Wombat checks location and spatial continuity across the manuscript so authors can catch setting details that move or disappear.
Related
Related continuity terms
These terms often appear together during manuscript revision.
Prop custody
Prop custody is the continuity of important objects as they are held, lost, damaged, transferred, used, hidden, or recovered.
Timeline contradiction
A timeline contradiction is a conflict in event order, dates, ages, elapsed time, travel time, or recovery time.
World terminology
World terminology is the consistency of invented or setting-specific terms, spellings, ranks, titles, factions, places, rituals, and rules.