I’ve been wanting to do another story bible/writer’s guide deep dive review since I finished Beast Machines: Transformers. In the past I’ve also covered Star Trek: The Next Generation, Batman: The Animated Series, and the sales pitch for the original ThunderCats. It’s interesting to see what concepts made it to the final product, but I hadn’t figured out what to do next.
During my hiatus week I decided to do a Google search for story bibles and see what came up. I came across three different websites that collected a few as part of an instructional series on how to write a story bible, the guide by which writers were told how to write the show, the lore, the personalities, and everything else a writer is supposed to do and now thanks to writers and showrunners who really don’t care about what they’re working on no longer do well. This one had a few potential offerings, though given the shows I watch I can hardly judge Ben And Burman as I just learned they exist when I came upon this page. Still, there’s some fodder for the future.
One of the items on the page was for both the pitch and writer’s guide for the original Star Trek as well as the other pre-Bad Robot disasters. I’ve already done The Next Generation, and while I wish I could have done the first show first, being first and all, I still have a great opportunity I’m not passing up. So let’s prep ourselves for the next one in this series of articles.
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