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Narrative OS — The Belief Engine
📐 Templates & Tools

🛠 Tool #18: Weekly Narrative Loop Template

Use this template to architect each week's story inside your broader arc. Each week becomes a mini-campaign that reinforces belief through rhythm, emotion, and system design.
Week Starting: [Insert Date]
Weekly Theme: A single sentence that defines the emotional or strategic focus of the week.
Tension: What contradiction or conflict are you surfacing? (e.g., "Everyone’s optimizing ads. No one’s optimizing trust.")
Tone Palette: Choose 2–3 emotional tones from your brand’s emotional palette. (e.g., Seductive, Dangerous, Intelligent)
Narrative Gear Focus: Which gears are you emphasizing?
Architecture (Belief / Role / Voice)
Exposure (Rhythm / Loops / Echo)
Emotion (Trigger / Memory / Feeling)

🔹 Monday

Post Type: [Text / Quote / Visual] ​Title / Hook:Content Purpose: Challenge a belief / provoke a rethink / drop a system truth ​Emotional Technique: [Friction / Reveal / Silence / Confession]

🔹 Wednesday

Post Type: [Carousel / Breakdown / Contrast] ​Title Slide:Slide Flow:
[Setup]
[Conflict]
[Realization]
[Shift]
[Solution or Loop Return]
Content Purpose: Teach a structural or emotional system ​Belief Reinforced: [Insert phrase]

🔹 Friday

Post Type: [Personal Story / POV Monologue / Analogy] ​Title:Scene Summary:
[Where are we?]
[What happened?]
[What changed you?]
[What’s the truth revealed?]
[What’s the line they’ll remember?]
Content Purpose: Seduce through vulnerability or narrative structure ​Emotional Trigger: [Shame / Hope / Desire / Belonging / Power]

🔸 Optional: Weekend Ambient Post

Post Type: [Visual + Text Overlay] ​Image Concept: [Describe visual] ​Overlay Phrase: [Short poetic line or belief marker] ​Caption (optional):
Mood Created: [Stillness / Allure / Melancholy / Clarity]
Loop Objective: What shift should the audience feel or realize by end of the week? (e.g., "Rethink what ‘top-of-funnel’ actually means.")
Memory Marker to Echo: [Optional line to repeat across formats]
Repeat each week. Keep the rhythm. Whisper belief until it becomes instinct.
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