# Storyforming from a Premise **URL:** \ **Category:** Writing\ **Created:** [October 7, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/storyforming-from-a-premise/2121 "2018-10-07T02:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/lakis/32/1816_2.png) [@Lakis](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Lakis)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/storyforming-from-a-premise/2121/1 "2018-10-07T02:17:20Z")
Hi @ArmandoSaldanamora Moving this to a new thread here because I’m not sure of the status of Michael’s story but I’m very interested in your process. How much content do you have before you start working on Dramatica? I have a bunch of half-baked ideas but they’re usually things like a situation, or elements of world, sometimes some vague ideas for characters. How do you get from that to, for example, a premise that can be developed (as you lay out in Chapter 3)? Here’s an example idea I’m working on: A team of burglars hacks into a city’s electric utility servers and gets data that allows them to determine when wealthy homeowners are on vacation so they can rob their homes. At some point though, the burglars come across information that a foreign government is also hacking the utility, and that this government plans to bring down the grid. The burglars struggle with what to do – expose the plot and incriminate themselves, or allow the foreign agents to shut down the Eastern Seaboard? But before they can take action, the foreign agents strike, and the city is blacked out. Now in an attempt to eliminate loose ends, the foreign agents try to hunt down the burglars. The story turns into a cat-and-mouse thriller in a blacked-out city. I don’t have a premise for this story. Especially the second half sounds like an OS Physics/Activity story, but I could see it in Psychology or even Universe. I have no idea from this though how to develop what you call a premise (e.g. “Unconditional sacrifice leads to freedom.” --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/storyforming-from-a-premise/2121)._