Ask for a review: continuity, chronology and style

Your assistant can read your whole work, along with its sheets, and tell you what doesn't fit. Reviews only observe: they don't change anything in your manuscript.

The three reviews

• World continuity: contradictions between chapters and with your sheets. For example, eyes that were gray and are suddenly green.
• Chronology and anachronisms: ages, durations and dates that don't add up, and objects, words or customs that didn't exist at that time.
• Style: repetitions, verbal tics, clichés and monotonous rhythm, always with the quotation.

Ask like this: “Review the continuity of Book II and save the report”, or “review the style of chapter 3”. It can review any book in the work, not just the one you have open. Some assistants, such as Claude Desktop, also offer them to you as ready-to-use commands.

The report

Your assistant saves the report as a note in your workshop, in the AI reports folder, with the review and the date in the title. Each observation says which chapter and paragraph it's in, and the most important ones come first. Since it's a workshop note, it doesn't appear in the book (Chapters, parts and documents: organizing the work).

Exaratio looks for each quotation from the report in your text. If one doesn't turn up, the report says so: take it with care, because your assistant may have copied it wrong. The report is an opinion, and it can be mistaken.

Other questions you can ask it

• “What continuity issues does the series have, and which ones are still open?” (Who knows what, and since when).
• “What does Elin know at the end of chapter 4?”
• “How does Odren change over the course of the series?” (How a character changes over the course of the story).
• “What does the reader know up to chapter 2?”