> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Storytelling

> Turn a real story from your life into a ready-to-record Instagram Reel script.

The Storytelling project is a story scripter. Not an idea generator. Not a caption writer. You bring it a real story from your life and it turns that story into a 4-beat script using the **HERO Framework**, ready to record as an Instagram Reel. One job, done well.

Every script it produces has to do three things at once:

1. Be a **real story** you've actually lived (no hypotheticals, no fake scenarios)
2. **Hit your audience emotionally** by connecting to their fears, desires, identity, lived experience
3. **Deliver a specific insight**, embedded inside the story, never bolted on as a lecture

## How a session goes

The AI opens with a question: do you already have a story in mind, or do you want it to pull angles from your North Star and suggest some?

### Path A: You have a story

You'll get walked through extracting the right specific details. The AI will push back when your answers are vague (and they will be, at first; that's normal). It's looking for the concrete, on-camera-able details that make a story actually work in 60 seconds of video.

### Path B: You don't have a story yet

The AI pulls from your North Star's life-story sections and your Citizen Doc's audience pains, then suggests angles where the two intersect: stories you've actually lived that your audience needs to hear.

## What you get out

A scripted Reel with four beats:

* **Hook**: the first line, designed for retention
* **Escalate**: the tension builds
* **Reveal**: the insight lands
* **Offer**: the closing that gives the viewer something specific

Plus a credibility line and language pulled directly from how your audience actually talks (via your Citizen Doc), so it sounds native to them, not like marketing copy read aloud.

## How the documents power it

* **North Star** → story bank + voice calibration (so the script sounds like *you* talking, not a generic creator)
* **Citizen** → audience emotional levers + native language patterns (so the hook lands and the words feel like theirs)
* **WorldCode** → brand edge and conviction (so the insight cuts, doesn't just nod)

All three required. The project won't run without them.

## Tips

* **Give it a real story, not a topic.** "Imposter syndrome" is not a story, it's a Wikipedia article. "The Tuesday I almost cancelled a launch because I refreshed the cart 40 times and saw zero sales" is a story.
* **Don't fight the pushback.** When the AI asks for more specific detail, it's because vague stories produce vague scripts. The detail is where the on-camera magic lives.
* **It's okay to redirect.** If the AI heads in the wrong direction with your story, just say "no, the part that matters is X." It'll re-orient.

## Prerequisites

North Star, Citizen, and WorldCode. All three required.