World Building: Rules Your World Follows
For fiction, Inkloom tracks world rules with domain categories (magic, physics, society, product, process), source provenance, locations, timeline events, and motifs. Before drafting, it knows the rules your world follows, so a chapter does not break them without you knowing.
Why this is hard
Long manuscripts have problems that short documents do not.
In fantasy and science fiction, world rules are sacred. If magic requires a sacrifice in chapter 1 but is free in chapter 15, the reader loses trust. But tracking every rule across a long novel is nearly impossible by hand.
World rules interact. A rule about magic might interact with a rule about geography, which might interact with a timeline event. Keeping all of these consistent across 300 pages requires a system, not a notes file.
Inkloom tracks world rules with domain categories (magic, physics, society, product, process), source provenance, locations, timeline events, and motifs as structured records. Before drafting a chapter, the system knows the rules your world follows. New chapters are checked against established rules for consistency. Conflicts are surfaced as cards.
You define world rules and assign them to domains. You decide how conflicts are resolved. The system tracks consistency and warns you.
What other Inkloom features interact with it
Continuity
Facts are extracted from your chapters into structured records with fact types, entity labels, confidence percentages, and source passages. Proposed facts promote to canonical with one click. Conflicts become cards. Nothing is ever silently resolved.
Canon
Canon is the set of facts your book has established as true. Proposed facts become canonical when you approve them. Canonical facts are binding on future generation. Superseded facts are preserved for history.
Character Tracking
For fiction, Inkloom tracks characters, motivations, knowledge states, relationships, world rules, timeline events, reveals, motifs, and point of view. Each character can have up to 8 reference images for visual consistency across generated covers and illustrations. Character rename propagates across the entire project.
Open Loops
Track open loops, questions, and unresolved threads across the manuscript. Know what you set up and what you still need to pay off. The system reminds you before a loop is forgotten.
Relevant educational articles
What Is Book Continuity?
Book continuity is the consistency of facts, events, character states, timelines, and promises across an entire manuscript. It is what makes a book feel like one coherent work instead of a collection of chapters.
How to Maintain Continuity in a Novel
Maintaining continuity in a novel requires tracking character knowledge, timeline events, world rules, and open threads across hundreds of pages. Here is how to do it without losing your mind.
How to Prevent Plot Contradictions
Plot contradictions happen when a later chapter conflicts with something an earlier chapter established. They erode reader trust. Here is how to catch them before publication, not after.
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