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.
StoryHelm is built from 61 analysis passes across 7 workflows; a Full read runs nineteen of them on each book.
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. Read any of the twelve in full online; the PDF adds the scoring pass.
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.
Prefer to read before you sign up? Read all 12 checks online →
The audit by hand takes a weekend per book. StoryHelm reads each book in a Full read and flags contradictions inside it, and a cross-book check you start compares a character's recorded appearance and voice between books, and the same event's year, month, season or length between two fully read books. The rest of these twelve checks stay yours. It never writes a word of your prose. See what StoryHelm costs →
Two disclosed features write other text: Ship Dock drafts pitch material about your book for you to review and edit, and Translation Studio produces machine-generated translated editions of a finished book.