It helps authors see whether scenes still connect after cuts, rearrangements, and rewritten chapters.
Glossary term
Scene tracking
Scene tracking records where each scene sits in the story, what changes, who is present, and what facts carry forward.
Definition
What scene tracking means
Scene tracking is a revision method for monitoring scene order, viewpoint, location, time, character presence, goal, conflict, outcome, and open questions.
A scene tracker shows that a character leaves town in chapter 9 but appears at a local meeting in chapter 10.
Wise Wombat's structure, presence, timeline, and scene cause-and-effect checks support scene-tracking review.
Related
Related continuity terms
These terms often appear together during manuscript revision.