- Define Premise, using your own words
A premise is basically a concept for a story or show or movie.
- Given an example of a premise from a popular movie or story that we might all know. This can be from an anime story or a different kind of story.
The premise of Demon Slayer is a boy, Tanjiro, goes on a journey to find the creator of demons to turn his sister back into a human when she’s turned into a demon.
- Craft a premise for a story you’d like to create this semester. To do this, answer the following (you may want to copy this list into your post and then answer each point
- Premise:
Write down your premise in one sentence.Ask yourself if this premise line has the makings of a story that could change your life.
The premise for my story is a boy, Cole, has been cursed by a demon, Circe, and joins a group of demon hunters to eradicate the world of demons and to figure out how to live with his curse.
- Possibilities:
Look for what is possible in the premise. Write down options.
*Cole can have demonic powers
*Circe is an antagonist at first but eventually becomes a part of Cole
*demons are evil
*the group of demon hunters face many trials
*the environment could be almost post-apocalyptic like
*character deaths
- Story Challenges and Problems:
Describe as many of the story challenges and problems that are unique to your idea as you can think of.
*Cole has to deal with his curse and learn to live with it
*there’s battle scenes against demons
*moral issues
*protag/antag disputes
*deaths
- Designing Principle:
Come up with the designing principle of your story idea. Remember that this principle describes some deeper process or form in which the story will play out in a unique way.
Cole is cursed by a demon named Circe and as he joins a group of demon hunters, has to learn how to live with the curse while fighting demons to save the world from their reign.
- Best Character:
Determine the best character in the idea. Make that character the hero of your premise.
Cole
- Conflict:
Ask yourself “Who is my hero fighting, and what is he fighting about?”
Demons to figure out his curse and to dethrone them.
- Basic Action:
Find the single cause-and-effect pathway by identifying a basic action that your hero will take in the story.
Demons have taken over the world and Cole and his band of demon hunters have to defeat them.
- Character Change:
Figure out the possible character change for your hero, starting with the basic action ( A ) and then going to the opposites of the basic action to determine his weaknesses ( W ) at the beginning and his change ( C ) at the end.
Defeating the demons, learn something about the demons that changes Cole’s way of thinking, moral decisiveness.
- Moral Choice:
List a moral choice your hero may have to make near the end of the story. Make sure it’s a difficult but plausible choice.From Truby, John. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (p. 35). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.
Deciding whether or not the demons are good and have a reason for being there or if they truly are evil and need to be eradicated.
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