Narrative Form Triage

Table of Contents

• Core Principles
• Workflow
• The Six-Question Form Triage
• Structure Selection Table
• ABT Spine Diagnostic
• Boredom Budget and Nesting Rules
• Guardrails
• Quick Reference

Related skills: Use narrative-arc-mapping for building the arc once this triage returns STORY NARRATIVE, narrative-evidence-ledger for the full evidence ledger the Step 1 chronology table is a subset of, mcphee-structure-derivation for deriving the shape inside a declared form. Use narrative-opposition-web for warranting an opponent once a story arc is available, writing-structure-planner for diagramming a chosen structure, communication-storytelling for audience adaptation after the spine is fixed.

Boundary with mcphee-structure-derivation: this skill decides the FORM — whether the material narrates at all, and as what — while mcphee-structure-derivation derives the SHAPE inside a form this skill has already declared.

Core Principles