Narrative Arc Mapping

Table of Contents

• Core Principles
• Workflow
• Step-Fit Triage
• The Empty-Slot Decision Table
• Story-Movement Shapes
• Guardrails
• Quick Reference

Related skills: Use narrative-form-triage FIRST — do not run this skill on material that has not been declared STORY NARRATIVE. Use research-claim-map to assemble the claim corpus. Use deliberation-debate-red-teaming to generate the rival arcs in Step 3. Use narrative-opposition-web for opponent warranting, which it owns. Use scene-construction-scam to build the scenes this skill's weave only tags. Use causal-inference-root-cause when the question is what caused the outcome. Use writing-structure-planner when triage says the material has no arc.

Core Principles