Story bible guides for serial fiction writers

Relationship maps, character sheets, factions and continuity — practical ways to keep your settings straight across a long serial.

• How to make a character relationship mapA practical guide to building a character relationship map for a web novel or serial: what to record, the order to draw it in, and how to track relationships that change chapter by chapter.
• Character sheet template for your story bibleThe character profile fields worth filling first for a web novel or long serial — and the ones that drift between chapters (age, appearance, speech, abilities). A template that keeps characters consistent.
• Organizing factions and affiliationsA guide to organizing layered factions — sects, guilds, orders, corporations — for fantasy, wuxia and web novels: faction trees, relationships between factions, and tracking promotions, defections and spies across chapters.
• Avoiding continuity errors in a long serialWhy continuity errors creep into long serials and how to prevent them: tracking character state, in-story time, places and foreshadowing chapter by chapter, plus a checklist before you publish each chapter.