After resolving major findings, send beta readers a cleaner draft and ask questions about the experience you actually want measured.
Before beta readers
Run a continuity check before beta readers
Use Wise Wombat before beta readers so human feedback can focus on story experience instead of avoidable contradictions.
Timing
Why this moment matters
Beta readers are most useful when they are responding to pacing, clarity, emotion, suspense, and genre expectations rather than tripping over fixable continuity artifacts.
Checks
Checks to prioritize
Focus on the continuity categories that affect this handoff most.
- Timeline sequence and duration
- Character knowledge and relationship state
- Unresolved references and setup/payoff
- Location and prop continuity
Steps
Suggested workflow
A simple sequence for turning continuity findings into useful revision decisions.
01
Run the pass
Upload the current full manuscript and review continuity findings by category.
02
Resolve high-trust issues
Fix contradictions that are clearly wrong or add story logic where the issue is intentional.
03
Write better beta questions
Ask beta readers about experience, not about finding basic continuity problems.
Boundary
What this is not for
Wise Wombat is a focused diagnostic tool, so it should sit beside the right human or editorial process.
- Replacing human reader response
- Getting taste, market, or genre-satisfaction feedback
- Final typo review
Related
Related reading
More detail on this workflow and the checks behind it.