Step 1: How do you build a canonical story brain from existing chapters?
Run a pass over your chapters that pulls character facts, location states, timeline anchors, and progression milestones into one place, because you can't fix what you can't see. In PlotWrite that place is the story brain: a page per character, place, item and skill, built from the chapters you've already written. Facts are timed by chapter ("Silver rank from ch 9"), and anything it proposes waits in your Inbox for approval.
Step 2: How do you find contradictions across 50 chapters?
Compare every chapter back against what the story brain knows, to surface where it deviates. You'll get a list of contradictions: a rank going backwards, a dead character walking, a brother becoming a cousin, the wrong location. Each one shows both quotes side by side. 'Character relationship inversion' beats 'eye color changed,' so focus on the top tier.
Step 3: Which contradictions should you fix, retcon, or absorb?
Three options per contradiction. FIX: small in-place edit (Killian was always coworker, never brother). PlotWrite can offer a one-click fix previewed as a diff, so you see exactly what changes before you accept. RETCON: write a short scene that explains the change ('Killian's promotion came through last week'). ABSORB: declare the character was lying or unreliable narrator. Don't fix everything. Pick the 3-5 readers will notice.
Keeping a long serial straight is the hard part. PlotWrite remembers every rank, skill and secret in your story and checks each new chapter before you post. Works with the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for. Free for 7 days.
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Step 4: How do you stop new contradictions after the repair?
Treat the repaired facts as settled, then run the Check chapter sheet (Continuity, Heart, Threads) on each new chapter before you publish. New contradictions become much rarer, and the ones that slip through get flagged early. For a one-page overview, the Continuity report lists contradictions, drifting stats and promises still waiting, with the top 5 to fix first. You still write every chapter yourself.