If you have a series with 3-4 books, do you manage them in on Scrivener project or multiple. If it’s multiple, how do you make sure the series bible is identical in all projects and syncs?
By making it a project of its own. This way there is only one version of it.
If you search the forum, there is an ongoing thread with a good couple of posts about handling series, somewhere.
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How do you orgnanize your series bible and keep it in sync then?
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There is no sync to handle as there would be only one version of your bible.
From within your novel projects you link to it. It is not actually part of the novel projects themselves.
It is another project on the side, you just leave it loaded in the background and edit it without having to worry about other novels.
Find the thread I mentioned. This is just one way to go about it.
Some people have all their novels of a series + the bible, inside a big single project.
But the last thing you want to do is have multiple projects (one per novel) with the bible in it, and try to keep the bible in sync across those projects. You’ll either fail, or have a huge headache, or both.
One big project with everything in it, or multiple projects + the bible on the side, both ways are fine. As long as there is only one version of the bible - no duplicates.
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I agree with Vincent. The other advantage of a separate project as a series bible is with multi monitor setups. you can have the bible open on one view and be writing in the current novel on another. Any related series bible info can be linked to the current scene from the bible and when needed clicking the Document bookmark, then opens the series bible to that file.
Another trick I used with my current book i am writing is character based research collections. I have my character card and associated research associated with that character all in one collection (added as I need when writing) I can then open this collection when the scene involves this character and all the character centric research is in one collection and when the next scene is another character I just pull up their collection. This could be done for magic rules, world building etc. I find the collection allows me to click it and have the info available while still in the scene. Another advantage of a separate Series Bible. Any changes in the bible are available to be reviewed from any book in the series. I also note as I write where character/story details are added in the novel, in case I have to update the story for consistency.
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