# Convenient-Invention Fact-Check - Chapter 09

DIFF SCOPE: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_09.round_01.md` vs `output/chapters/chapter_09.md` - 12 changed regions, 9 new factual assertions extracted.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #1
post-edit text: "a budget that paid small invoices in halves when the grant check cleared"
pre-edit text at that point: "mostly goodwill and a single grant renewed annually by miracle"
class: detail
canon check: research dossier allows small grant-funded art spaces and late payment; chapter card requires "ordinary freelance ecosystem."
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - narrows raw vagueness into plausible invoice timing; no contradiction.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #2
post-edit text: "a straight run of screw holes at title height from the vinyl lettering crew"
pre-edit text at that point: "a constellation of screw holes from the vinyl lettering crew"
class: detail
canon check: no prior canon; same wall damage as raw, made literal.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - specificity replaces figure without changing plot.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #3
post-edit text: "Start date can flex after mid-December"
pre-edit text at that point: "Starts after our December showcase"
class: timeline / detail
canon check: `timeline.md` fixes class showcase mid-December and Ch09 before Week 4; Nia cannot be assumed to share "our" showcase.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - fixes ambiguity while preserving after-mid-December start constraint.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #4
post-edit text: "My lease is up in December either way"
pre-edit text at that point: "My sublet's up in January either way"
class: timeline / detail
canon check: `canon_sheet.md` says June's lease ends in mid-December.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - revision corrects raw draft contradiction.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #5
post-edit text: "Dana's giving up her studio spot in Ridgewood end of January. Shared floor, six painters"
pre-edit text at that point: "Dana's giving up her spot in Ridgewood end of January. Shared floor, six people"
class: detail
canon check: chapter card specifies "Ridgewood shared workspace/sublet" and "former-studio-mate lead"; research dossier licenses shared artist workspace in high hundreds.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - disambiguates workspace rather than inventing new plot.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #6
post-edit text: "Kessler's got an armory build-out in January if you can show up with a level. Six weeks. Pays late. Pays real."
pre-edit text at that point: Kessler/armory appeared later at loading door.
class: detail / timing
canon check: chapter card requires "January install contract through Asha's coordinator"; research dossier licenses NYC preparator/install work.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - moved earlier for clarity; no new knowledge source.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #7
post-edit text: "I took a museum prep job in 2019 for health insurance, didn't stretch a canvas until May, and caught up. You catch up."
pre-edit text at that point: "I've been doing it for nine years; the boring parts are the only parts I'm rated for."
class: character backstory / motivation
canon check: Asha is a newly introduced character; `style_and_voice.md` says she wants stable paid art-adjacent work without giving up painting and assumes everyone can survive hustle math.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - a new Asha fact introduced inside her first chapter; tracker must record it. Revision order below is tracker-only, not prose.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #8
post-edit text: "June... did not say that she had spent six years not catching up"
pre-edit text at that point: absent
class: motivation / continuity
canon check: `continuity.md` says June "has not painted in six years"; Ch01/Ch03 establish the six-year lapse.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - uses established wound against Asha's wrong assumption.

## INVENTION CANDIDATE #9
post-edit text: "The sentence from lunch came back first: *I didn't say it was a favor.* Wrong, and still the only sentence she had."
pre-edit text at that point: absent
class: motivation / knowledge
canon check: line 69 plants the deleted sentence; June's voice card says she mistakes being understood for being pitied.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE - closes a same-chapter planted reaction.

## Verdict

NO-INVENTIONS in prose. One tracker adoption required for candidate #7: record Asha's 2019 museum-prep/health-insurance anecdote as her backstory evidence for "stability can eat painting time."

## Revision orders

1. Tracker order only: add Asha's 2019 museum-prep job and "You catch up" blind spot to `npc_goals.md` / `continuity.md` before commit.
