The whole book on one page, as it stands today. Fill it in lightly, since many answers will change as the draft goes on, and read it before each return to the draft. At the end of each round, duplicate this page, date the copy, and update the original.

Done when every field has a line or a dated blank, and the date at the foot is today's.


Working title

Manuscript

A link to wherever the draft lives.

The premise, in one sentence

A person, the pressure on them, and what it puts at risk.

The genre promise

What a reader who picks up this kind of book expects to feel.

The theme question

Written as a question. The book can answer it, complicate it or refuse it.

The protagonist

What they want, what they need and the lie they believe.