Your Hemingway true sentence is the story premise

Ernest Hemingway, pictured working in Wyoming, said to write one true sentence. In my way of thinking put a lot of thought into a one-sentence story premise will go a long way in helping you tell your story better.

By Alan O’Hashi from True Stories of a Mediocre Writer

Hemingway says to write “one true sentence.” To get started, I’m talking literally about writing one sentence that I call the story premise.

I’ll deconstruct the first pitch line I gave for Beyond Heart Mountain when the publisher picked up my memoir.