A book can cover a lot of ground. It can relate a story that is a day long or one hundred years. It can happen in one town or across the galaxy. It can include one person or a thousand.
There are no limits to the world that you are creating. This leaves a lot of room for confusion.
When you’re editing your story, make sure that the span of it hasn't allowed some simple continuity errors to slip in.
Have you said it's November, but provide a backdrop of budding flowers? Do you have a character who is seven years old on one page and seventy on the next? Do you have characters who travel from one part of the country to the other end of the world in what could only logically be an hour?
The bigger your story, the easier it is for some inconsistencies to sneak in. Make sure to look for some in your writing. At least some readers certainly will.
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