The story bible keeps what you need to remember about your book in one place, beside the manuscript.
- Entries. Add characters, places, things, terms and events, each with a line on who or what it is, your notes, and details of your own: eyes, grey; first seen, the harbour.
- Where they appear. The studio finds each entry in your manuscript, as you have it in the editor now, by its name and the other names it goes by, and lists the chapters it's in and how often. Names are found as whole words, as you write them; one written in lower case is found with a capital too. In languages where names change their endings, add the stem with a star: Mar* finds Mara and Marze.
- The timeline. Events, in the order they happen in the story, each with when it happens in the story's own terms.
- In the editor. Beside the chapter you're writing, the editor lists who and what is in it.
- A series. Bring one book's entries over to the next: what the new book already has stays as it is.
- Translations. When you translate the book, its names and their one-line descriptions go into the translation's style bible, so everyone is named the same way throughout. Your notes stay with you.