How to Test a Story Premise Before Drafting
Test a story premise by naming a specific protagonist, destabilizing change, consequential want, active opposition, and reason action cannot wait.
Drafting Tools
How to Choose Point of View for a Story: A Scene Test
Choose point of view by deciding whose experience organizes the story, what the narrator can know, and how that voice shapes the reader's understanding.
Drafting ToolsPremise vs Logline: Use Each Without Getting Stuck
A premise describes the story's core situation and pressure, often for development; a logline compresses a particular version of the story for a reader,…