Foreshadowing, facts, knowledge, and states
Use Foreshadowing board (伏笔看板), Facts and knowledge (事实与认知), States and inventory (状态与物品), and Story timeline (故事年表) in the longform workbench. They answer different questions and do not replace each other.
| Record | Question |
|---|---|
| Foreshadowing | What has been planted; when should it be echoed or paid off? |
| Facts | What does prose evidence support, and during which time range? |
| Character knowledge | Which character already knows what? |
| States and inventory | Current states, possessions, acquisition, and consumption |
| Story timeline | In what order did plot events occur? |
Foreshadowing in writing
Maintain content, status, and chapter links so later tasks can see what needs setup, response, or payoff. Planning a payoff does not mean the prose has delivered it; verify the status after actually writing it.
Changing a foreshadowing record does not rewrite completed prose. When moving a reveal, check related chapters and future plans so an old plan does not continue misleading generation.
Fact candidates need confirmation
Extract facts (提取事实) proposes candidates. The fact library distinguishes Pending candidates, Confirmed Canon, and Exceptions requiring review. Canon means official facts confirmed by the author.
Check subject, assertion, prose evidence, and validity period. Guesses, lies, and rumors must not become objective facts automatically; check who knows what separately.
After prose edits or deletion of chapters/characters, evidence may be stale, missing, or outside a valid time range. Abnormal entries are not injected into generation as valid facts; they require review, not dismissal of the warning.
Why inventory and states still need checking
“The profile says the character has a sword” may conflict with “the inventory ledger says it was lost this chapter.” Check where acquisition, handover, consumption, or loss occurred, and whether later tasks read the right evidence.
The story timeline describes when events happen, not when you edited files. Cross-chapter and multi-thread narratives especially need chronology checks.
After edits
Correct the prose first, then check related facts, states, foreshadowing, and summaries. Impact analysis locates affected downstream content; the author decides what to revise. It does not automatically rewrite the book.
Related: Continuity and post-chapter review · Works and worlds.