era arc

An era arc is the full narrative through-line connecting the person you were at the start of a personal era to the person you become by the end of it — the growth, the setbacks, the turning points, and the eventual closing scene that ushers in the next phase. It's the story of an era told in retrospect, with the understanding that what felt like random events were actually chapters of a coherent transformation. Calling it an era arc gives your personal history the gravity of character development, turning lived experience into something that reads like intentional plot.