Series Compendium - A Special Book

Adding to the timeline is done in Acts or Chapters. However, an Act does not appear to allow any text outside of the title. A Chapter is better. What would be great is some sort of new artifact instead of Act or Chapter. The idea being this “special book” in a series is the Compendium - the world at a glance, all of the characters, the full timeline. Then each “new artifact” in the timeline section would map to a book, or an Act (section of a book). It could include things like:

  • Timeline = 2030, 2031, 2202, 2203

  • Characters = Jon R, Liz R, etc

  • Theme(s) = [describe]

  • Worlds = Planets, Cities, Geography, Cities, Countryside, Shipboard, etc

The idea is to give the AI some overall boundaries for a book/act yet also allow the full major arc(s) to exist in one place. While several of these pieces sit at the world building level, this would allow a tighter boundary per “new artifact” (book or act).

Take a character for example - the main overall character is still part of the world building and lives where all books in a series can use it. In the Compendium Artifact an addendum/modifier to a character can be created for just that book/act.

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Status

Proposed

Board

💡 Feature Request

Date

7 months ago

Author

JT Kaelen

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