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Types of change, everything
15 stories with a history. 29 edits with recorded reasons, 17 with rationale unrecorded.
editorial51editorialisation / banned-phrase removal
world38world-embeddedness
fact27a factual or lore error corrected (added 2026-10-12, agreed by Ralph)
craft25formatting / readability fixes
clarity22a reference the reader could not follow without having lived the scene; under-explained (proposed by P2 on 2026-10-12, kept by Ralph as a separate tag from craft)
ai-tell13removal of AI-sounding phrasing
voice7character-voice maturity
overreach6reversal of an overreach
registry3registry enrichment
reuse2lazy reuse (a weak repetition, caught and fixed)
texture2sensory / textural depth
pipeline1a production or pipeline mistake put right (a file in the wrong place, a duplicate id), not a change to the writing (added 2026-10-12, agreed by Ralph)
review1response to a review round
Data and graphs across all stories: changes by type over time, edit sizes, reasons recorded, reviews that prompted edits.
Stories with a history
- Percy and the Crate That Waited (3 versions; 0 with recorded reasons, 2 with rationale unrecorded)
- For Deliah (11 versions; 0 with recorded reasons, 10 with rationale unrecorded)
- Asking the Way (4 versions; 0 with recorded reasons, 3 with rationale unrecorded)
- Percy and the Recipe That Waited (2 versions; 0 with recorded reasons, 1 with rationale unrecorded)
- Still in Pyrewood (11 versions; 9 with recorded reasons, 1 with rationale unrecorded)
- The Tower Over the Trees (3 versions; 2 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- I. Page Seven (5 versions; 4 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- II. Money (5 versions; 4 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- III. The Man Who Wrote It Down (4 versions; 3 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- IV. Two Pages Left (3 versions; 2 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- V. Comfortably Numb (2 versions; 1 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- VI. Echoes (3 versions; 2 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- VII. Have a Cigar (2 versions; 1 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy (2 versions; 1 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
- IX. Time (1 version; 0 with recorded reasons, 0 with rationale unrecorded)
