Premise Workshop

Overview

Turn a spark into a premise that can carry a book, before story init builds the project. The workshop generates what-ifs from the spark, tests them as loglines, drafts the controlling idea and its counter-argument (premise and counter-premise in story.md), names the stakes, chooses a form (the form field), brainstorms titles, sanity-checks the idea against comparable books, and hands a filled-in brief to the story-init skill. The author owns the idea: offer options and tests, never decide for them.

Prerequisites

None. The workshop usually runs before a project exists. If the user wants the work saved before story init, keep it in one premise-notes.md file in the current directory (outside the future project folder) and move the kept material into story.md after init.