narrative-snippets

SKILL.md

Turn raw source material into structured stories by identifying universal narrative beats. Instead of describing what makes a good story, this skill shows you how to deconstruct and reconstruct them.

The core insight: Stories follow predictable patterns. When you can identify those patterns in source material, you can extract and reshape them for any format - blog posts, cold opens, social content, newsletters.

| 1. Setup | Protagonist in their world, everything seems fine | Establish stakes, create identification | | 2. Disaster | Something goes wrong, disrupts the status quo | Hook attention, create tension | | 3. Failed Approach | They try the obvious solution, it backfires | Show the old way doesn't work |

Extract compelling story structures from source material (transcripts, interviews, raw notes) using universal narrative arcs. Use this skill when transforming podcast transcripts into blog posts, creating cold opens, or finding the story beats hidden in any content. Source: cdeistopened/opened-vault.

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