Catch continuity problems before they become revision problems
Continuity checking is less about finding typos and more about finding contradictions in the story's logic. Story Health is coming soon in Author. The diagnostics described here are not included in Writer or the free trial; you can organize the underlying story references today.
Story Health is planned for the Author plan and is not available in Writer or the 14-day free trial. References to its diagnostics on this page describe the upcoming feature. See current plans.
Explore Quilly's upcoming Author Story Health feature for continuity and plot-thread review. Coming soon; excluded from Writer and the free trial.
What Story Health looks for
Quilly can surface continuity-related signals such as timeline conflicts, unresolved threads, characters without recent appearances, unassigned events, and broken references. These are review prompts, not automatic judgments.
A signal may be intentional. A character can disappear for ten chapters because the story requires it. The value is that the author sees the gap and decides consciously.
- Timeline conflicts
- Unresolved story threads
- Characters without recent appearances
- Events not assigned to the story
- Broken entity references
Why continuity errors happen
Long manuscripts create memory problems. Details established months earlier are easy to forget, especially after plot changes. The more connected the cast, timeline, and world become, the harder it is to check consistency manually.
Keeping story entities connected gives Quilly more context for identifying things worth reviewing.
A revision assistant, not a story score
Quilly does not try to assign a quality score to your novel. Story Health is designed to point to concrete structural questions so the author remains the decision-maker.
How to choose without overcomplicating it
Good planning should reduce uncertainty and make the next writing decision easier. Use these steps to turn the ideas above into something concrete without adding unnecessary process.
Define the exact friction this kind of tool should remove from your current writing process.
Try the tool with a real chapter and a real planning problem instead of judging it from a feature checklist.
Pay attention to how much duplicate data entry is required between manuscript, outline, character, and worldbuilding views.
Choose a workflow you can keep using during drafting and revision, not only during the exciting setup stage.