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premise-workshop
This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm a story idea", "I have an idea for a story", "what if", "develop a premise", "is this idea strong enough", "workshop my logline", "premise", "story concept", "what should I write", "short story or novel", "novella or novel", "name my book", "title ideas", or has a spark (an image, a character, a setting, a question) and wants to turn it into a tested premise before starting a story project. NOT for the controlling idea or theme of an existing story (use theme-craft).
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# 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