Day 2 of the Story Project.
After the initial idea, I like to get a sense of where my Storyform might be in the Dramatica Chart of Elements. For those of you who don’t have it memorized (like me), you can click this link to download the Dramatica Table of Story Elements (PDF).
I’ll often just [...]

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After several days of going back and forth in my head, I’ve decided to try something out here. I’m going to document how I use Dramatica to take a story from the initial idea to the final screenplay. Now, whether or not it will be an outstanding screenplay is not up to me [...]

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Turns out my brother might’ve been right about Deadwood.
This weekend I picked up Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills written by the series creator, David Milch. I’ve only read the first couple of pages, but it seems to be a book all about the making of said series. It should be known that I absolutely [...]

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Trolling through the Dramatica archives, I came across something interesting in the Tip of the Month for January 2000:
It is not important whether it’s the steadfastness of one character that forces the change in the other, or the change in one that supports the steadfastness of the other.
Well that’s a new one for me. All these [...]

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Something I wrote about a looong time ago, was what some of the biggest things were that typical authors leave out of their stories. To me, that’s one of the coolest aspects of Dramatica - it helps to point out the missing pieces or holes in your story. Previously I had listed the [...]

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In this month’s tip, the question is raised about whether or not you need to have all eight archetypal characters present when writing a story. Chris does a good job of explaining that it’s not as important to have all those 8 characters as it is to have all the elements those characters represent.

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Made some changes to the Resource page as well as updated the look and feel of the blog - partly because I thought the old design had become too cluttered and partly to help inspire me to write here more often.
Most of you already know about the main Dramatica site, but I did have something to [...]

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