HOW TO MAKE A WRITER'S BIBLE

Your novel is in your head. Some of it is in a notebook. Some of it is buried in a document called final_final_FINAL_v3. And at least one (that you can recall) important detail has already disappeared into the void.

How to Make a Writer’s Bible is a practical workbook for turning that creative mess into a living reference guide you can actually use while writing your novel.

At the center of the book is the EDDTR System: Explore, Develop, Decide, Test, Record. Instead of forcing your story into one rigid plotting formula, EDDTR gives you a repeatable process for taking half-formed ideas, developing the ones with potential, testing whether they actually work, and recording the answers that survive into a workable writer's bible.

Work through your premise and story engine. Build characters around motivations, fears, contradictions, relationships, and decisions. Define the rules of your world and the consequences they create. Untangle plot structure, subplots, themes, timelines, reveals, continuity problems, and scene-level causality. Then take everything you’ve discovered and assemble it into a writer’s bible that keeps the important stuff somewhere other than your increasingly overcrowded skull.

The final section includes copyable and adaptable reference templates for project overviews, plot and story arcs, character sheets, relationship maps, world rules, locations, scenes, timelines, story and decision engines, terminology, technical research, EDDTR development, and more.

If you’ve got an idea for a novel and a growing pile of characters, scenes, lore, notes, contradictions, and miscellaneous creative bullshit, this book helps you turn all of it into something you can actually write from.

Paperback workbook
8.5 x 11 inches, 90 pages.