Books and writing
Screenplays, comic books, novels, worlds and memoirs, with the bibles that keep them straight.
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- 1 A technical bookFor a developer writing a book about a web frameworkYour coding assistant files every concept in your programming book with its sources, then checks each chapter against the framework version you have installed.
- 2 A novel series bibleFor a novelist on book four of a mystery seriesYour assistant reads your published books, files every fact with the chapter that set it, and catches the line in book four that contradicts book two.
- 3 A fantasy world encyclopediaFor a fantasy writer building one world across several booksHand your lore notebooks to your assistant and get an encyclopedia of your invented world: an entry per people, place, war and word, linked and indexed A to Z.
- 4 A memoir from vignettesFor a retired teacher writing a memoir for the grandchildrenWrite a memoir the way memory works, a vignette at a time and in any order. Your assistant files each one word for word; you drag them into place.
- 5 A television series bibleFor a screenwriter developing a limited series to pitchYour assistant lays out a limited-series bible from your pilot and outline; you write every section, then send producers one link with a password.
- 6 A commonplace bookFor a reader who wants to remember what they readThe old commonplace-book habit with an index: your assistant files the passages you marked, finds echoes across books and quizzes you on your own notes.
- 7 A podcast seasonFor a podcaster planning a ten-episode narrative seasonYour assistant researches the season and every guest from public sources and files a brief per episode; you check each fact and write the questions yourself.
- 8 A feature screenplay’s bibleFor a screenwriter between the outline and the third draftKeep the script in your screenwriting app and the thinking in know.sh: a beat sheet charted against the page, scene cards per sequence and every round of notes.
- 9 A graphic novel’s bibleFor a writer-artist making a graphic novel aloneYour assistant turns your script and notes into model-sheet cards, a page-by-page breakdown and a production board, and flags the key ring on the wrong hip.