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Continuity

Auntie Continuity (Those who pronounce "aunt" as "ant" will get the joke. Those who pronounce it properly may not.) has a demanding job. She polices plots for holes, and descriptions for unexplained changes. She is the one who notices when Blair's beautiful blue eyes suddenly become green, when the loft magically acquires an extra bathroom, and that Lefty could not possibly have done it because in Chapter Three, Jim said the guy was right-handed, and Lefty is missing that particular limb. Writers who do not have an Auntie Continuity will have to do the job themselves. Or find good beta readers to do the job for them.

Plot

Exposition

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Continuity

Point of View

Tense Persons

Dialogue

Names, Pronouns, Descriptive Phrases

Fragments

Spelling

Plurals, Numbers, and Apostrophes

Punctuation

Common Errors

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