Start: [[2025-07-30]] Published: [[2025-07-30]] Updated: [[2025-08-01 ]] > [!todo]- Prompt: > "*Fueled by your passion for your specific idea, and armed with the point you want to make, let’s work on your* What If. *The goal isn’t to nail it perfectly in the first attempt. [...] So, let’s do a bit of foundation-laying, because yes: even your* What If *has layers that you can revise to make it better.*" > — Lisa Cron: *Story Genius* ([Link](https://rauchundkoenig.buchhandlung.de/shop/article/28982701/lisa_cron_story_genius.html)) > [!tldr]- **Summary:** Layer by Layer Toward the Core Premise (*What if...*) > 1. Tbd > [!warning] Orange – Mild Spoilers --- > *This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.* > — Morpheus in Lana and Lily Wachowski’s *The Matrix* ([Link](https://youtu.be/zE7PKRjrid4?si=BHz6IlJOZoULVeWO)) --- ## Attempt 1 Imagine someone—a man—who has spent his entire life fighting to somehow fit in and make his way in a reality that never felt made for him. **What if**, after one final defeat too many, this man can no longer go on—and is offered a chance to escape this reality into a world built entirely from his own desires, longings, and dreams? And what if this supposed paradise turns against him—and he ultimately must destroy it in order to save his own life? And only after that—late, maybe too late—he realizes that this life was always worth living. And worth telling. --- ### *Lisa Cron Feedback* - Problem? ✅ - Solution? ✅ - Specific? ❌ - AuDHD? ❌ Clearly, this isn’t it yet. On to a new attempt: [[Step 4 - Draft 2 Layer by Layer Toward the Core Premise]]Links & License#^c7e67d]]