is your Story’s Premise? 8 Comments Image by zen via Flickr http://narrativedisorder.com/storycraft/2011/03/storycraft-book-chat-1on-writing-by-stephen-king/ . Yesterday I sat in on a tweetchat on twitter. The link to the chat transcript is above. The subject was: The Premise. So what is “The Premise” of your story? Bill Johnson defines it as “the Foundation of Storytelling”.