What's your PREMISE? (Part 1)

When people ask you what your book or script is about, what they are really asking is – “What’s the Premise?”

In other words:

What’s the story line in one immediately understandable sentence?

That one sentence is also referred to as a “logline” (in Hollywood) or “the elevator pitch” (in publishing) or “the TV Guide pitch”—it all means the same thing.