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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).
Premise, theme, controlling idea, subject selection, and logline for scripts — synthesized from Lajos Egri's premise-as-tyrant and dialectic, Robert McKee's controlling idea (value + cause) and idea/counter-idea, Neill Hicks's five premise questions, Lisa Cron's “third rail” (desire vs. misbelief, origin scene, and what-if question), Julian Hoxter's logline and theme–attitude rule, Blake Snyder's logline, genre, and title tests, and Lu Jun's Chinese craft chapters on strict subject selection, deep development, a fresh perspective, a strong dramatic core, and a surprising plot. Use when turning a vague idea into a premise, determining what a story is truly about, choosing a subject and angle, testing a logline, deriving the ending from the theme, or diagnosing a script that “has events but no story.”