Story premise

In part two of our One Year novel series, we tackle the beginning blocks of your story: the premise! Here's how you can construct a strong yet concise premise for your novel using JotterPad.

How can you tell what your story's premise is telling readers? Here are four questions you can ask about your story's premise.

To learn how to identify your story's premise, use these two questions to come up with a "high" concept that wows readers all the way through to the end.

This worksheet goes along with John Truby's book THE ANATOMY OF STORY-- a very useful resource!

Understanding how to turn a premise into a plot in simple, structured tasks will help you develop story ideas into fuller, riveting tales. Learn more.

Learn from how sci-fin master Orson Scott Card’s how to explore, find, and use up every delicious drop of your story's premise potential.

Premise, concept, controlling idea, seed of the story ... If you need to come up with one for your script or novel, check this article out!

Finding interesting story plot ideas is easy when you have many brainstorming methods. Read 8 ways to find great book ideas.

What Makes a Good Premise?

The premise sentence is a bit like the question on an essay exam paper - you can keep referring back to it to make sure you're not wandering off the point. It