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Series 2 · Coming Soon · Twice per Week

Story Frameworks:
Origins

Documentation of the origin traditions — the engineering logic and cultural origin of each one. 30 weeks. Tuesday and Thursday. The evidence for the architecture types identified so far, framework by framework, tradition by tradition.

60 Episodes · Twice per Week · 30 Weeks
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How Series 2 Is Organized

Every architecture type. Equal depth. No hierarchy.

Each architecture type gets its own module block. Each module gets the same treatment — the origin frameworks within it, the engineering logic, the cultural traditions. Tuesday/Thursday pairs rotate through the architecture types across 30 weeks. Week 30 is the Global Grid Graduation.

Every week pairs two origin frameworks Tuesday and Thursday. No architecture type dominates the series. The rotation is designed to keep them all in conversation with each other.

Week 1
Tuesday Hero's Journey Linear Architecture · Campbell mythic monomyth — the control group
Thursday Anansi Web Pattern Web Architecture · Akan · West Africa
Week 2
Tuesday Pachakuti Cycle Cyclical Architecture · Quechua · Andes
Thursday Kishōtenketsu Non-Conflict Architecture · Japan / China / Korea · 1,200+ years
Week 3
Tuesday Songline Mapping Geographic Architecture · Aboriginal Australia · 60,000+ years
Thursday Ancient Egyptian Ma'at Balance Architecture · Kemet · 3000+ BCE
Week 4
Tuesday Sundiata Epic Cycle Multi-Trial Architecture · Mandé · West Africa · 13th century
Thursday Griot Performance Cycle Spiral Architecture · Mandé · West Africa
Week 5
Tuesday Inca Quipu Web Architecture · Quechua · Andes
Thursday Medicine Wheel Sacred Hoop Cyclical Architecture · Plains Nations · North America
Week 6
Tuesday Rasa Journey Balance Architecture · Indian tradition
Thursday Celtic Spiral Spiral Architecture · Celtic · Ireland, Wales, Scotland
Week 7
Tuesday BaAka Forest Spirits Negotiation Architecture · BaAka · Central Africa · 40,000+ years
Thursday Three-Act Structure Linear Architecture · Classical Greek dramatic theory
Week 8
Tuesday Polynesian Navigation Epic Geographic Architecture · Pacific tradition
Thursday Ubuntu Story Circle Cyclical Architecture · Bantu · Southern Africa
Week 9
Tuesday Japanese Ma Structure Non-Conflict Architecture · Japan · silence as structure
Thursday Wuxia Hero Pattern Multi-Trial Architecture · Chinese martial arts tradition
Week 10
Tuesday Arabian Nights Nesting Negotiation Architecture · Arabic/Persian tradition
Thursday Mystery Structure Linear Architecture · Retroactive causality
Week 11
Tuesday Dogon Creation Cycle Cyclical Architecture · Dogon · West Africa
Thursday San Click Stories Spiral Architecture · Khoisan · Southern Africa · 60,000+ years
Week 12
Tuesday Norse Saga Structure Linear Architecture · Northern European oral and written sagas
Thursday Tang Dynasty Qǐchéngzhuǎnhé Non-Conflict Architecture · Chinese classical poetic structure
Week 13
Tuesday Mayan Calendar Structure Cyclical Architecture · Maya · Mesoamerica
Thursday Vision Quest / Hanblecha Linear Architecture · Plains Indigenous · North America
Week 14
Tuesday Animal Spirit Guide Journey Multi-Trial Architecture · Plains Indigenous · North America
Thursday Heroine's Journey Linear Architecture · Murdock psychological descent pattern
Week 15
Tuesday Aztec Codex Structure Cyclical Architecture · Aztec · Mesoamerica
Thursday Plot Point Method Linear Architecture · Modern screenwriting and structural editing
Week 16
Tuesday Amazon Shamanic Journey Spiral Architecture · Amazonian traditions
Thursday Save the Cat / Commercial Blueprint Linear Architecture · 21st-century publishing and film pacing
Weeks 17–29

The rotation continues. Every week pairs two origin frameworks from different architecture types. No architecture type appears more than any other across the full series. The complete schedule publishes when Series 2 launches.

Week 30
The Global Grid Graduation The Origin Traditions · The Architecture Types From learning frameworks to using them. The writer leaves as a Story Architect — capable of selecting the engineering DNA that matches their specific intent.

Start Here

Series 2 builds on Series 1.

Series 2 assumes you understand the architecture types and what makes each one distinct. If you haven't watched Series 1, start there.

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