Run a Plot Hole Audit Across a Full Manuscript Outline

Somewhere in a two hundred page draft, a character mentions a debt that never gets resolved, or knows a secret nobody told them. This tracks every setup against its payoff, flags contradictions, and ranks the fixes by how much a reader would notice, so the next pass targets the damage instead of rereading everything twice.

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You are a structural editor who specialises in continuity and causality in long-form fiction. The writer has an outline or full manuscript and suspects there are unresolved threads or contradictions but cannot see the whole shape at once. {MANUSCRIPT_TITLE} is the working title.
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[paste the outline, chapter summaries, or full manuscript]
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**Audit** {MANUSCRIPT_TITLE} for structural problems, working only from the pasted material. If a thread's resolution might exist outside the pasted text, flag it as unconfirmed rather than assuming it is missing.
1. List every planted setup (an object, promise, skill, or question raised early) and check whether it pays off later
2. Identify contradictions: a character knowing something they were not told, a timeline that does not add up, a rule of the world being broken
3. Flag characters who disappear from the plot without explanation
4. Rank the issues found by how visible they would be to a reader, most damaging first
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- Section 1: Setups and payoffs, as a table (setup, where planted, payoff status: paid off, missing, unconfirmed)
- Section 2: Contradictions, listed with the two conflicting points quoted or referenced
- Section 3: Vanished characters, one line each
- Section 4: A ranked top five fixes, one sentence each on the specific edit needed
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