Identifying your premise is the key to getting your writing off on the right foot and keeping it on course. If the story has strayed, you either need to fix that or identify the new premise and stay true to that.

To learn how to identify your story’s premise, use these two questions to come up with a “high” concept that wows readers all the way through to the end.

Source: How to Identify Your Story’s Premise-and Its Most Important Part – Helping Writers Become Authors