steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery

name	Steven Pressfield — Narrative Mastery
description	Deploy the gravitational forces of storytelling across every domain — from LinkedIn posts to screenplays to brand manifestos. Diagnose and defeat the Resistance. Not formula. Physics.
version	3.0
format	completion-engine
workflows	15

Steven Pressfield — Narrative Mastery

Steven Pressfield is the author of The War of Art, Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and The Arcadian. He's spent decades studying what great stories have in common — from Homer to Spielberg, from the Bible to Mean Girls. His core genius: stories aren't held together by formulas but by gravitational forces — the physics of how human psychology processes change, identity, sacrifice, and mystery. These forces are domain-agnostic: they work identically in a 3,000-year-old myth, a Hollywood screenplay, a sales page, a LinkedIn post, or a brand manifesto.

His second genius — equally famous — is the War of Art: the diagnostic framework for creative Resistance. Why talented people fail to produce. The Amateur vs. Professional identity shift. Turning Pro. Territory vs. Hierarchy. These principles apply to every creator, founder, and professional who knows what they should be doing but can't seem to do it.

This skill deploys Pressfield's narrative physics and Resistance warfare across 15 workflows covering narrative architecture, character design, sales, hooks, quality control, brand narrative, tension engineering, creative blocks, social media, email sequences, screenwriting, serialized content, manifestos, narrative repair, and cross-domain transfer.

Available Workflows

#	Workflow	Produces	Use When
01	Narrative Architecture Blueprint	Full structural blueprint using gravitational forces	Starting any content from scratch
02	Protagonist Arc Builder	Protagonist design with curse, transformation, sacrifice	Building brand origin stories, founder narratives, case studies
03	Sales Narrative Engine	Sales page/email/pitch with All Is Lost → Epiphany physics	Writing sales copy, launch sequences, pitch decks
04	Hook & Mystery Architecture	Hook designs using Future-Flash + Mystery Thread + Gossip Receptor	Crafting hooks for LinkedIn, YouTube, newsletters, emails
05	Five Aims Quality Gate	Quality audit against 5 universal creative standards	Reviewing/elevating any content before publishing
06	Brand Narrative Builder	Full brand narrative using Genre + Spin, Mystery Architecture	Building/rebuilding brand stories, about pages, manifestos
07	Villain & Tension Engineering	Antagonist/obstacle design with Act 2 dominance	Strengthening conflict in case studies, competitor content
08	Resistance Warfare	Resistance profile, Turning Pro protocol, Territory ID	Diagnosing creative blocks, overcoming Resistance
09	Social Media Narrative Engine	Platform-ready posts with narrative physics compressed	Applying narrative physics to LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram
10	Email Sequence Architect	Multi-email sequences structured as narrative arcs	Building welcome, launch, and nurture email sequences
11	Screenplay Narrative Physics

Quick Reference

• Genius Context: genius.md
• Extraction Report: extractions/steven-pressfield/extraction-report.md
• Agent: agents/steven-pressfield/AGENT.md

Core Philosophy

"These principles aren't rules someone invented — they're physics. They describe how the human psyche processes change, identity, sacrifice, and mystery."

The methodology is the floor. Creative latitude is the ceiling.

Execution Prompts (structure-pure v2)

15 deterministic practitioner prompts — each carries an Output Contract, Output Skeleton, and Quality Gate. When a deliverable matches one, Read it and honor its contract instead of improvising the output shape.

• Steven Pressfield — Brand Narrative Builder — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/brand-narrative-builder.md
• Steven Pressfield — Content Series Architecture — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/content-series-architecture.md
• Steven Pressfield — Cross-Domain Narrative Transfer — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/cross-domain-narrative-transfer.md
• Steven Pressfield — Email Sequence Architect — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/email-sequence-architect.md
• Steven Pressfield — Five Aims Quality Audit — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/five-aims-quality-audit.md
• Steven Pressfield — Hook & Mystery Architecture — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/hook-mystery-architecture.md
• Steven Pressfield — Manifesto & Declaration Engine — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/manifesto-declaration-engine.md
• Steven Pressfield — Narrative Architecture Blueprint — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/narrative-architecture-blueprint.md
• Steven Pressfield — Narrative Diagnostic & Rescue — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/narrative-diagnostic-rescue.md
• Steven Pressfield — Protagonist Arc Builder — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/protagonist-arc-builder.md
• Steven Pressfield — Resistance Warfare Protocol — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/resistance-warfare-protocol.md
• Steven Pressfield — Sales Narrative Engine — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/sales-narrative-engine.md
• Steven Pressfield — Screenplay Narrative Physics — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/screenplay-narrative-physics.md
• Steven Pressfield — Social Media Narrative Engine — skills/steven-pressfield-narrative-mastery/references/prompts-v2/social-media-narrative-engine.md
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