Narrative Nonfiction Workshop

Workflow for self-help and prescriptive nonfiction using narrative elements and metaphors to guide reader transformation.

Core concept: Reader is protagonist; book is map and method; transformation is the contract.

Session Continuity

Book projects span weeks or months. Claude has no memory between sessions, so the project's blueprint document is your persistent state.

At session start: Read book-blueprint.md (or whatever the project calls its blueprint) before doing any other work. Skim recent files in sessions/ for unresolved threads.
At session end: Write a brief note at sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_topic-slug.md summarizing what was done, decisions made, and the stopping point. Two to five sentences is enough.
When foundations shift: Update the blueprint immediately when promise, central metaphor, reader-arc stages, or reveal structure change. The blueprint is the source of truth, not a one-time template.
Surface unresolved questions: At the start of new work, list questions left open from prior sessions and ask the user which to address before continuing.