A Story is a Promise uses a workbook approach to guide writers toward a new understanding of the process of creating and writing dramatic stories - exploring how a story functions like a promise and how to fulfill a story's promise to its audience. This book is based on the Johnson's popular workshops of the same name.A Story is a Promise is a journey of understanding into the craft of storytelling designed to help bring writers forth with passion, feeling, and dramatic clarity the stories they conceive in their minds and heart.