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Temporal Marker Absence

Flags long scenes that lack any time-grounding references.

What It Does

Scans all paragraphs in a scene for temporal markers (time of day, days of week, months, relative timing words). Flags scenes of 8+ paragraphs that contain none.

Technical Details

  • Source: prose-craft
  • Scope: Scene-level (8+ paragraphs)
  • Method: Keyword matching against 50+ temporal reference words