The 12 continuity checks readers punish most.
A four-page self-audit you run against your own shelf. Twelve checks, the exact question to ask your manuscripts for each one, and a scoring pass that tells you whether your series is tight or drifting. Emailed to you as a PDF.
The twelve checks at a glance
Each check comes with the exact question to ask your manuscripts, and an example of the error in the wild.
One check, straight from the audit
So you know exactly what you're getting.
The resurrection error
The error readers forgive least
Ask: Has anything you killed, burned, broke, or banished reappeared without an explanation on the page?
A minor character who died in Book 2 answers the door in Book 4. The one-of-a-kind sword, shattered at the climax, hangs on a wall two books later.
Mark one box per check. Unsure counts against you, and the audit explains why.
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The audit by hand takes a weekend per book. StoryHelm runs these checks, and the rest of a full continuity read, across your entire series against one canon. It never writes a word of your prose. The founding cohort is forming now →