Today’s chapter of the #WordWeaverPodcast is short and sweet, but imperative for a great story. Learning how to write a book premise, logline, and define your book’s elevator pitch is the first step to writing a book. The second step is structuring, outlining, and plotting — but first, you need to understand your book’s central idea/theme, what drives the plot. Typically, a premise needs to contain 3 things in a single sentence:

A protagonist

A goal (what does your protagonist want or need?)

A situation or crisis (the protagonist is facing)

You should be able to define what your story is about, why readers should care, and be able to complete this sentence:

[Character] must [do something] to [story goal] or else [disaster/crisis situation/reason why the audience should care].

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