# 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.