Chapter 12 sample: The healer warns that Jonas should not climb stairs for at least two weeks.
This creates a clear recovery constraint.
Timeline contradiction
Sample report: injury recovery timeline conflict
A sample continuity report showing how recovery time and event sequence can contradict each other.
Scenario
What the sample checks
A character suffers a serious injury, but later scenes use an earlier pacing plan that no longer leaves recovery time.
Detected issue
The manuscript implies a two-week recovery window in one chapter, then places a demanding scene three days later without explanation.
Evidence
Passages a report would point back to
Good continuity findings need source evidence. These sample passages show the kind of contrast an author reviews.
Chapter 14 sample: Three days after the duel, Jonas sprints up the bell tower before dawn.
The later action may conflict with the established recovery constraint.
Report shape
How the author can act on it
The goal is a reviewable decision, not automatic rewriting.
01
Likely continuity risk
The timeline or the severity of the injury may need adjustment.
02
Author decision
The author can change the elapsed time, lower the injury severity, or add a credible reason the action is possible.
03
Downstream check
Review travel, sleep, medical care, and urgency scenes around the same sequence.
Review
Suggested author review
These are the practical follow-up moves the sample report points toward.
- Create a mini timeline for the injury sequence.
- Decide whether the tower scene needs a date change or physical limitation.
- Check whether other characters react consistently to the injury.
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