Free Guide to Master Your Premise Line
With Guest Expert Jeff Lyons
Earlier this year, my writing pal and colleague Jeff Lyons and I put together a two-part article series called "Five Essential Steps to Crafting Your Premise Line." It's been such a popular post, that I decided to compile the article into a free guidebook for you, along with a workbook for helping you craft your own Premise Line.
For writers, whether you're writing fiction, screenplays, or creative non-fiction, a premise line is an incredibly valuable tool that will help you both develop and test the basis of your story.
A premise line is more than just a logline or synopsis. They’re related, but different animals.
Using a premise line has become an integral part of my story development work. Not only do I use a premise line to develop my story, I use it to track my work, test the concept, and more. In the guidebook (or in the two-part article here and here), you'll find out how to develop a premise line yourself. Then you can use the workbook to craft your own. The workbook comes in two formats: A PDF format for printing and handwriting your answers into and an RTF format for easy importing into Scrivener or Word, where you can type into it directly (my favorite!).
Enjoy!