A story bible that remembers what was true, and when
Keep your characters, places and the rules of your world beside the manuscript, and see any of them as they were in any chapter.
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Written for fantasy, LitRPG and any story with more to remember than one head can hold.
For every writer who has forgotten the colour of a character’s eyes.
Chapter I
A world holds a whole series: its books, their chapters, and the story bible they share. Start from a blank page, or from a fantasy or LitRPG template that already knows about classes, skills and magic.
Chapter II
Characters, places, items and factions each keep an entry, and each entry remembers how it changes: the level Aden reaches in chapter 7, the town that burns in chapter 9. Choose a chapter and see each entry as it stands there.
Character
Aden Varn
As of chapter 1
The Ash Gate · Book One
Choose a chapter to see Aden as he is there.
Chapter III
Set a character’s stats into the scene as a status block. It shows them as they are at that point in the story, and whatever changes there carries on into the chapters after it.
From Book One, Chapter 1
The Ash Gate
pressed his palm to the stone and felt the gate answer, a low hum under the frost. Behind him, Thornwall was still burning.
Aden is a mention. His entry opens from here, as he is in this chapter.
A status block shows his stats at this point in the story, not as they are at the end.
Not enough. Not nearly enough to hold it open for the others, and he knew it.
Raise his level here, and every chapter after this one knows.
Chapter IV
Date your scenes in your world’s own calendar, with its eras and months. The timeline sets the story as readers meet it beside the world’s history in its own time, and points out what doesn’t add up.
Story Order
World Time
1The Ash GateAfter the Fall
3 Frostmonth, 412 AG
4Frost RoadBefore the Fall
14 Highsun, 381 AG
7What the Gate KeptAfter the Fall
11 Frostmonth, 412 AG
9Thornwall BurnsBefore the Fall
6 Thawmonth, 379 AGFlashback
Chapter V
Share chapters with beta readers, up to the point you choose. They comment in the margin, react, and answer the questions you ask them, and nothing past where they’ve read gives the rest away.
The gate stood open when he reached it, as if it had never been sealed at all, and the frost on its hinges had already begun to melt.
Mara, beta reader
Wait, wasn’t the gate sealed? I thought that was the whole point of chapter 4.
Shared With Your Readers
Shared up to chapter 7: nothing after it can spoil the ending.
Chapter VI
Take a book, or a few of its chapters, to EPUB, PDF, Word or a standard manuscript, and count its pages the way your editor does.
Afterword
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