Do you have a "bible" (not religion)

[droidmonkey1]

Bible (screenwriting)

I'm wondering, if any of you have one for their creation

[silverraven0]

Nope. I just have some cluttered information about my characters and some plot that will came to play later in the series on my binder, but it's not something I could even call decent characters information or the sort. XP

[feardeer]

I sort of do, but it's half baked. It's my attempt at organizing all the scattered information I have for my comic in OneNote. I'll finish fleshing it out eventually, probably.

[skicoak]

How is OneNote for sorting things? I keep looking at Notebook AI but haven't jumped into it.

[feardeer]

@skicoak
I honestly love it. I'm sure there are better programs, but I don't have any interest in switching to something else, personally. I own articy:draft too, which is comparable, but lacks ease of use.

Here's an example of what one of my notebooks looks like:

You can create several layers of nested pages, and collapse sections to reduce clutter.
You can include images, graphs, tables, to-do lists, doodles and handwritten notes. It's pretty convenient! Also syncs online, which has been occasionally useful to me.

It's not specialized like Notebook.ai though, so you'd have to do more legwork to get it set up the way you want it.

[onyisart]

I don't' but when I was working on my comic I was thinking like that a little to help me better flesh it out and to show if I wanted to pitch it to a studio.

Adventure time, bravest warriors are online on scribd

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Yeah, when I started doing comedy comic strips, I found a character bible useful for keeping everyone's backstories and likes/dislikes in order. Unlike in a serious story, you don't refer to those little details very often in the actual writing, so it's easy to forget them if you don't have some kind of record. ^^;

[punkarsenic]

understanding comics!!

whenever i get stuck creatively, i give it another read and it gets me going again

EDIT: oh. wrong kind of bible... i have various notebooks for my thumbnails and character designs, i go through them too fast, so its all a bit dispersed. though for college projects i have a sketchbook for each that acts as its bible

[Wumbl]

I have a set of notebooks I use for that stuff - one for characters, another for settings and organisations, and I'm making another one for noteworthy objects as well.
My co-writer started a wiki page we can use to transfer it all over later on, too. We just threw together a few minor character profiles on Wikia recently too.

[Azifri]

I'm a mess but luckily one of the co-authors of our webcomic has created meticulous spreadsheets about the characters and their personality development/changes. Similar for worldbuilding and technologies.

I do like to keep visual libraries (collections of images that in some aspect I associate with the story) as well as sketches. Also flowcharts so I don't get confused about the order of events.

[droidmonkey1]

I just add all new ideas or systems like magic as I go, I fles it out as need it.

[Klaustasya]

I've always considered my own brain (absorbed informations) my bible but after looking at all the answers here, i might be a little bit too confident about my memory capacity lol i really should write somewhere all those important tips/inspirational details i can get from other works

[Raven_C]

Technically no, I don't have one creative bible but, I have a physical notebook, my Evernote app, and document files with bits and pieces of information and I just gather them when it comes down to writing. I have a bunch of visual libraries, though, both on my computer and on Pinterest.

[kyurenai]

I'm still in the process of making one for my story.

[SilverLugia456]

I have created a handful of story bibles for the stories that I have written or are in the process of thinking up. My first story bible was written while I was in my degree program for university and since they I have written a few when it comes to my stories. I find that it helps me to really keep my storylines organized and character's thought out. A few of them have even helped me with world building as well. I don't create story bibles for all my work though, sometimes I just write down information in my notebooks and from there create my stories as well.

[aqua03]

I kinda sorta started one a few years back for DRGN, but it was really disorganized and I realized recently that DRGN had gotten way out of hand for just me to handle at that point. (I've had basically 7+ years worth of ideas working on it in one form or another.) So I decided to place DRGN on hold for al title bit to work on smaller comic book projects as practice before I return to it proper. (Definitely will get the preproduction out of the way first before even thinking of wiring a script for it.)

[lartianmartian1]

I do not. I just have a bunch of disorganized notes and stuff. But you just gave me the idea to actually make one! Thank you!!!

[crayon_witch]

I have memory problems, so I have a habit of writing any new thought I have related to the story down in my notes app on my phone... Sometimes I look back and have no clue what I was trying to say, though lol

one of my last notes just says “PETER PAN” in all caps (??????)

[droidmonkey1]

I had similar problem so I started writing flow chart. it's simple and succinct.