Plot Hole Detective Kit
A printable revision workbook for fiction writers
Something in your story doesn’t quite add up. Time to investigate.
Maybe a character knows something nobody told them. A journey takes three days going out and twenty minutes coming home. Or that brilliant fix in chapter twelve has caused a whole new problem in chapter twenty.
The Plot Hole Detective Kit helps you turn that nagging “something’s wrong” feeling into a practical revision plan.
These nine printable worksheets guide you through your manuscript’s cause and effect, character consistency, timeline, and story-world rules—with space to record suspicious gaps, consider possible fixes, and track your changes.
Think of it as a case file for your manuscript. You bring the story. The worksheets help you ask the questions.
Inside the kit
- Plot Hole Checklist — Start with a first-pass check of your story’s logic.
- Cause & Effect Tracker — Connect major events to believable causes and meaningful consequences.
- Character Consistency — Check what your characters know, want, and do.
- Timeline Verification — Keep dates, travel, and the sequence of events straight.
- World-Building Logic — Track established facts and rules.
- Plot Hole Investigation — Identify a problem and work through possible fixes.
- Red Flags List — Look for coincidences, forgotten clues, disappearing subplots, and other trouble spots.
- Revision Tracker — Organize your repairs and remember what needs another look.
- Final Case Check — Check whether your revisions have left any loose ends—or created new ones.
Use the complete kit after a first draft, alongside beta-reader feedback, or whenever a scene makes you pause and think, “Wait. Would that actually work?”
Print the pages you need, work through one problem at a time, and reuse the worksheets with future manuscripts.
What you’ll receive: One nine-page PDF in US Letter size (8.5 × 11 inches). This is a digital download for printing and writing by hand, not a fillable PDF. No physical product will be shipped.
Grab your metaphorical magnifying glass. Let’s find out what your plot has been getting away with.
