Use cases · Manuscript revision
The revision letter is in.
Your editor's letter says the timeline doesn't work, or a beta reader caught something you can't unsee — a promise made in chapter four that chapter twenty never keeps. The notes about it live in three different tools: a comment thread, a spreadsheet of continuity flags, a sticky note on your monitor. Rereading your own book for contradictions is archaeology with a deadline — you know the shape of what you meant to write, and that makes it hard to see what you actually wrote instead. Loreon reads the whole manuscript against your story bible in place of your memory, and hands you what it finds, cited to the passage.
The pains
What revision asks of a reread.
Revision asks you to reread the whole book for problems your first read couldn't see, and to find every instance a letter only pointed at once. Three failures recur:
- You can't get fresh eyes on your own book. You know what you meant to write, so a reread fills the holes from memory instead of catching them — the exact blind spot a second read is supposed to fix.
- The letter points, but you have to find every instance. An editor flags "the timeline doesn't work," a beta reader flags one contradiction — and now you're hunting through the rest of the manuscript for every other place the same thing breaks.
- Whole-book scope. Contradictions, timeline slips, and dropped foreshadowing hide across a hundred thousand words or more, not in any one chapter you can hold in your head at once.
The mechanisms that serve you
Findings, not another reread.
When the letter says "this doesn't work," the next step used to be another full read — this time hunting line by line for the place it broke. Loreon replaces the hunt with an on-demand whole-manuscript validation run: it reads every chapter against your structured story bible and returns findings — contradictions, timeline errors, voice breaks, dropped foreshadowing — each one citing the passages it caught. You work the findings like a list, not a lecture: resolve what needs fixing, dismiss what was on purpose. Validation never edits your prose, and it only runs when you ask for it.
- Every finding cites its passages. Chapter and paragraph, so you are reading the evidence, not just taking software's word for it.
- Conservative by design. A contradiction that reads like it could be intentional — an unreliable narrator, a deliberate reveal — gets flagged rather than silently assumed a mistake. The resolve-or-dismiss choice stays yours; see how to find plot holes for the manual version of the same search.
- Built for the whole-book pass. The chapter-by-chapter discipline described in maintaining continuity in a novel is what a validation run automates at full-manuscript scale.
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 · unresolvedTwo findings from a validation run on a working manuscript: severity, category, the cited passages — and the decision left to you.
Common questions
Revision, specifically.
How is this different from the per-scene consistency check?
Scale and moment. The per-scene check reads the scene you're writing, when you ask, while you're still drafting it. Validation reads every chapter at once — the instrument for revision time, not drafting time, for when the letter has already told you something's wrong and you need to find where.
Will it rewrite my manuscript?
No. Validation reads and reports. Each finding cites its passages; you resolve it or dismiss it. Nothing in your manuscript changes without you.
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.
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