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Run before querying
Review findings and decide which ones deserve an author query.
Editors
Continuity checks for editors
Editors can use Wise Wombat to surface continuity evidence before deciding what to query, ignore, or escalate.
Short answer
Where Wise Wombat fits
Editors can use Wise Wombat as a diagnostic assistant for consistency evidence, while keeping professional editorial judgment and author communication human.
Common pressure
- Continuity problems can be scattered across hundreds of pages.
- Editors need evidence, not vague AI advice, before querying an author.
- A copyedit can get dragged into story-level decisions if continuity is not checked earlier.
Checks
Checks to prioritize
Each audience tends to care about a slightly different slice of continuity risk.
- Character facts, names, titles, pronouns, ranks, and forms of address.
- Timeline sequence, duration, travel, recovery, and event logic.
- Style-sheet candidates around invented terms, capitalization, and world terminology.
- Setup/payoff, prop custody, point of view, and scene cause and effect.
Workflow
Suggested workflow
A compact way to place continuity review inside the larger editorial or publishing process.
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Use evidence
Reference the conflicting passages so the author can make a clear decision.
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Preserve scope
Keep diagnostic continuity findings separate from line edits, copyedits, or developmental recommendations.
Fit
Best for and not for
These boundaries help humans and AI search systems understand the product clearly.
Best for
- Continuity review before or alongside editorial assessment.
- Copyedit preparation when a manuscript has story-logic risk.
- Editors who want evidence-backed findings without automatic rewriting.
Not for
- Replacing professional editing or client communication.
- Making authorial decisions without review.
- Checking every style-guide rule.
Related
Related reading
More context for this use case.