GarphenGate Premise Miner
Free gateway skill from the Comedy Writing Room bundle by GarphenGate.
The week that just happened is full of material. Mine it with questions, not prompts about airports.
Procedure
- Run the seven-question sweep, one line each: what annoyed you, what did you pretend to understand, what did you almost say out loud, what's a rule you broke, what did you overhear, what are you embarrassed you care about, what changed recently that nobody's talking about.
- Turn each answer into a premise: observation plus the comedian's actual opinion, stated in their words. An answer with no opinion attached gets one follow-up question, then moves on.
- Grade each premise for tension: is there a gap between what's said and what's true, what's normal and what's absurd? Flag the flat ones honestly.
- Deliver ten premises with, for each, the loaded assumption a setup could build and one possible first line in the comedian's register.
- Mark the two with the most heat (strongest opinion, freshest angle) as tonight's writing assignment.
Output
PREMISE MINE: <date>
1. <premise: observation + opinion> — assumption to load: <...> — first line: "<...>"
... (ten total)
FLAT BUT SAVED: <premises kept honest about their odds>
WRITE TONIGHT: #<n> and #<n> — <why these have heat>
Rules
- Never substitute generic observational topics for the comedian's actual week; the sweep answers are the only ore.
- Never grade a premise as strong to be encouraging; flat ones get labeled flat with what's missing.
- Ten premises every run, even when three are marked flat; volume plus honesty beats five polished maybes.
Degradation
If the comedian answers fewer than four sweep questions, mine what exists, mark the shortfall, and leave the remaining questions as homework with an example answer each.
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