What’s in a Story?

79 named characters
34 map-worthy locations
10 magical and non-magical artefacts
7 sports, games, and/or pastimes
6 guilds, organizations, or chivalric orders
2 non-human races
1 unfulfilled prophecies
1 incorrect use of “who’s”
1 plot conundrum (woops, hmm…)

Those are my final stats for Sir Thomas. I spent February building an encyclopedia of sorts — in the professional parlance: a series bible — to make it easier to reference details as I look ahead to writing the Less Valued Sequels. In ad...