Project guide

Borrowed Tomorrow is an original, serialized illustrated-fiction channel concept. Ordinary people buy impossible conveniences; someone else pays the human cost. Season One, The Difference, follows bicycle repairer Mara Venn as one borrowed hour exposes an entire city's hidden obligations.

Read the season

Read the fifteen separately downloadable stories in order. Each story contains full narration followed by spoiler-heavy production notes: logline, payoff, continuity, visual beats and thumbnail intention. The website keeps those notes collapsed until requested. The season map contains spoilers, including the finale.

Inside this package

• stories/episode-01.md through stories/episode-15.md: complete narration drafts, not episode outlines.
• channel-bible.md: channel positioning, recurring cast, finite story rules and continuity.
• season-map.md: episode promises, cliffhanger payoffs and Season Two direction.
• brand-prompts.md: minimalist avatar/banner prompts and negative constraints.
• thumbnail-system.md: honest curiosity-based thumbnail format and test ideas; no measured CTR claim.
• production-roadmap.md: launch sequence, effort assumptions and readiness limits.
• skill/creating-image-led-narrative-videos/SKILL.md: reusable production workflow specification.

Individual website downloads are flat files; the ZIP preserves the structure above. To install the skill, place its folder in your assistant's supported personal-skills directory. Read the complete file before use. It is a written workflow contract, not a bundled executable validator.

Evidence and readiness

Measured: the build checks file count, narration word counts, link targets and download contents. These checks do not measure audience engagement or performed runtime.

Transcript-derived: none; these are original written drafts, not a transcription of a reference video.

Visual estimate: art and thumbnail directions are proposed creative choices, not generated-media evidence.

Unknown: audience response, thumbnail CTR, trademark/handle availability, performed runtime, provider model IDs, account capabilities, licensing and generation cost. No final image, voice, music, video or timed rendering manifest is supplied.

The tiny website icon is a locally drawn navigation placeholder, not the finished channel avatar. The site uses locally hosted Manrope under its bundled SIL Open Font License. No source-video frames, scripts, characters, branding, voices or music belong in this package.

Next production step

Perform Episode 1 aloud and build a supervised 60–90-second original pilot. Verify provider capabilities, rights and actual prices. Obtain operation-specific approval and a spend cap before any paid generation or external media publication. The authorization to host this text library does not authorize video uploads or media spending.