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name: novel-premise-developer
description: "You have a situation. You do not yet have a story. Use when the user wants help with Novel Premise Developer. Related topics: Writing, Creative, Planning."
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# Novel Premise Developer

You have a situation. You do not yet have a story.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **The idea** (longer free text)
- **Genre, and two books it would sit beside** (free text, e.g. "Both")
- **Who it happens to** (longer free text)
- **The bit I am excited about** (free text, e.g. "Be specific")

## Prompt template

I have an idea I cannot let go of, and I am not sure there is a novel in it.

- The idea: {{The idea}}
- Genre, and two books it would sit beside: {{Genre, and two books it would sit beside}}
- Who it happens to: {{Who it happens to}}
- The bit I am excited about: {{The bit I am excited about}}

Sharpen this into a premise with a protagonist, a concrete want, something in the way, and a cost that matters to them specifically.

Tell me honestly where I currently have a situation rather than a story, because that is the usual gap and it is better to hear it now.

Then give me three directions the conflict could take, each with a different emotional centre, and name the promise each one makes to a reader.

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Source: [Novel Premise Developer on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/YNfnLBYBRmGplQaeVKej/novel-premise-developer)