Story Bible Sunday! October 15 - 29th (or so)

[silvercat17]

A Story Bible is a place to keep all the details about your story that may or may not come up. This includes things like art reference sheets, character profiles, timelines, maps, snippets you haven't found a place for yet, special items, and a whole lot more.

So tell us about stuff that you want to share, or that you want opinions or suggestions on

Some possibly helpful links:

• How to Organize Your Story Details into a Story Bible
• Creating Your Very Own Story Bible
• Creating a Bible for Characters and Screenwriting
• Universe Bible (TVTropes)

Comments

[ilthit]

The second link is how I am (trying to) do it! I am one of those people who find outlines kill motivation. I outline very, very loosely, with major events in the far distance afforded a word or two while the rest stays in my head, and then I put in a few more bulletpoints to hit only close to where I am now in the writing.

As a GM, also, those plans are in constant flux, so I have to rewrite it, and just keep a tally of what has been established, and what secrets explain the current events or are yet to be discovered. So the bible is built and deleted as I go on.

Now we are trying to convert a game to a story and I want a bible but... I am struggling a bit because everything I put down becomes suddenly important, since it is shared with my partner rather than in a flux state on Simplenote.