premise Archive
After working out my series premise and the the premise line for book 1, I analyzed it following the methodology in John Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I looked for what the audience expectations would be, what the potential challenges of …
Now that I have my overall series premise, as well as an idea of how the primary conflict will be resolved, I can plan the individual books based on the steps and progress that my hero needs to take to …
OK, so I think I finally have a grasp of where my series as a whole is headed. I have worked out the overall premise for what I think will be a trilogy, including how my hero confronts my villain …
I was continuing to work on my series premise and overarching considerations today and finally landed on an explanation that gives my hero positive action as well as stakes that go beyond herself. Better, I even managed to condense it …
So, I have spent the last several days going through potential “What if” scenarios and premises for my first book and the series as a whole, but almost all of them shared one problem: They were all about what happened …
I took another step back and now I’m examining the series premise for my novel. It was always in the back of my head that I didn’t have a clear plan for the series or what the overall arc would …
I’m going back to look at my story from step one – looking at the premise again. My initial premise was probably too complicated, as I was tempted from that stage to stuff more than was reasonable into the story. …
Today, I went back over the premise work from yesterday, finishing the Truby evaluation of my character’s change and final moral decision, then went to work on describing my hero. When I wrote my last stories, I thought that each …
Starting today, I am working on a new book idea from scratch. After several trunked novels (and many lessons learned along the way about what went wrong with my stories), I am committed to finishing this one. This is going …