Features · Manuscript validation
The entire book, checked at once.
The short answer: manuscript validation is a full sweep of every chapter against your canon — contradictions, timeline errors, voice breaks, and dropped foreshadowing — run when you ask for it. It reads every chapter at once: the reading no human editor can hold in one pass, and no chat window can hold at all.
The mechanism
Findings, not rewrites.
A validation run produces findings, each anchored to the passages it cites. A finding names its severity and category, quotes what clashed, and waits: you resolve it or dismiss it, and nothing in your manuscript changes without you. Editorial authority stays where it belongs.
- Every finding cites its passages. Chapter and paragraph — you read the evidence, not just the claim.
- Resolve or dismiss. Findings are a to-do list you control, not edits done to you.
- Run it when it matters. Before a revision pass, before your editor sees it, before book two locks book one's canon.
Mira arrives before she departs
Ch. 1 places her on the Long Quay two days after midwinter — her customs deposition has her leaving Vellhark four days after it.
§ ch. 1 ¶3 · ch. 1 ¶3The eleventh crate is never opened
Signed for with weight in ch. 3 — "lighter than air and heavier than the rest together" — then absent from the volume.
§ ch. 3 ¶4 · unresolvedFindings from a validation run: severity, category, the cited passages, and the decision left to you.
In the studio
The validation workspace, on a real project.
The validation workspace on a working manuscript: the suite of checks you run against canon — a quality pass, structural analysis, per-chapter checks, an opening audit, series coherence, and pacing — with a completed logic check on chapter one.
Common questions
Running validation.
How is this different from the consistency check?
Scale and moment. The per-scene consistency check reads the scene you are writing, when you ask. Validation reads every chapter at once — the instrument for revision time rather than drafting time.
What does a run cost?
Validation is metered in prepaid credits — one cent per credit. Every run estimates its cost before you start, at most the estimate is reserved, and your balance never goes below zero. See pricing.
Will it rewrite anything?
No. Validation reads and reports. Each finding cites its passages; you resolve or dismiss; nothing changes without you.
The bottom line
Fresh eyes on a hundred thousand words.
Rereading your own book for contradictions is archaeology with a deadline. Validation does the sweep against a structured story bible and hands you the findings — and for a series, cross-volume coherence extends the same discipline across volumes. For the manual pass, see how to find plot holes.
Loreon · The Writing Studio
Try it on your own manuscript.
The editor is free, and welcome credits cover your first real agent work — no subscription, no card on file.