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Consistency and contradictions
Three scanners that find where your book disagrees with itself.
What it is
CharmWriter runs three separate contradiction scanners. The first looks inside the Story Bible for facts that disagree with each other. The second compares a chapter against the bible — prose that says something the reference does not support. The third compares chapters with each other, which is where continuity errors across a long manuscript actually live. Findings collect in a Contradictions hub with severity, source and type, and each one can be resolved by choosing which version is true and letting the AI apply the fix as a reviewable diff.
Where to find it: Workspace → Story Bible panel → Contradictions, at the bottom.
What this covers
- Bible-internal contradictions
- Chapter versus Story Bible checks
- Cross-chapter continuity
- Severity levels and filters
- Grouped by type
- Jump to the source of a fact
- AI-proposed fixes reviewed as diffs
- Choose which version is canon
- Dismiss with a reason and undo
- Bulk dismiss
- Automatic scan after saving a chapter
- Live consistency alerts while you write
- Contradiction rings on the Story Map
How to use it
- 1
Open the Contradictions hub
It sits at the bottom of the Story Bible panel. Findings are grouped by type with a severity dot on each.
- 2
Run a scan
Scan All runs all three scanners. The tooltip explains what that costs, since it is three separate passes over your material.
- 3
Check the source
Each contradiction names where both facts came from. Click a source to jump to that bible entry or chapter and judge it yourself.
- 4
Decide which version is true
Resolving asks you which side is canon. You can keep the bible version, keep the chapter version, or write your own.
- 5
Review the fix
The AI proposes the edit that makes both sides agree, and you accept or reject it as a diff. Nothing is changed silently.
- 6
Dismiss what is intentional
A character who lies is not a continuity error. Dismiss with a reason — you get an undo window, and you can bulk-dismiss a whole group or all low-severity findings.
What it gives you
It catches the errors that are invisible up close
Nobody remembers in chapter nineteen that they gave a character brown eyes in chapter two. Cross-chapter scanning is exactly the work a human editor charges for.
You decide what is true
The scanner never picks a side by itself. It shows you both facts and their sources, and your choice becomes canon.
It runs while you write
Live consistency checking watches AI responses against the bible and raises an inline alert when something drifts, throttled so it never becomes noise.
Deliberate inconsistency is respected
Unreliable narrators, characters who lie, and facts that change on purpose are dismissible with a reason and stay dismissed.
Good to know
- A full scan runs three AI passes and costs accordingly. The hub tells you before you start.
- Contradiction detection finds factual disagreement, not plot holes. "This character would never do that" is a judgement it cannot make.
- The scanners can raise false positives on deliberate ambiguity and unreliable narration. Dismiss them with a reason.
- Automatic scanning after a chapter save is debounced, so a finding may take a moment to appear.
Questions
How is this different from the chapter review?
The review judges quality — prose, pacing, dialogue. Contradiction scanning judges facts — whether your book agrees with itself. They answer different questions and are worth running separately.
Does it scan automatically?
A scan is triggered after you save a chapter, and live consistency checks run against AI responses while you write. The full three-scanner sweep is manual because it is the expensive one.
My character contradicts herself on purpose. Will it keep flagging that?
Dismiss it with a reason and it stays dismissed. You can also clear resolved findings entirely.
Where else do contradictions show up?
On the Story Map, any entity with an unresolved contradiction wears a red ring, and the Conflict lens shows only those entities.
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