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Module 3: Narrative Architecture

The Logic and the UI

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Marcin Pilarczyk
Mar 20, 2026
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You have a Concept Doc that survived the stress test. You have a 10% Delta that readers are actually hungry for. Now, we stop “thinking” and start building.

In the Iteration Lab, we don’t “sit down and see where the characters take us.” That’s a recipe for spaghetti code – a plot that wanders aimlessly until it crashes into a dead end. We map the structural skeleton before we ever touch a scene. This is Narrative Architecture.

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