In upgrading StoryFanatic to the latest build of WordPress (v. 2.3), a conscientious effort was made to apply quad theory to the organization of the site. Read on as I analyze my own website!

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Binary choices stifle authors. Does your story end in Success or Failure? Does your Main Character Change or Remain Steadfast? Dramatica questions like these offend seasoned and fresh authors alike. Turns out these questions might not be as binary as they seem.

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Some people just don’t get French films. While on the surface many would attibute that to language barriers or xenophobia, there is something that is happening structurally that can account for the dislike.

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There are some very interesting relationships in Dramatica that aren’t covered in the manual or in the software itself.

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If Characters are the Motivations of a story, and Plot the Methodologies of a story, and Theme the Means of Evaluating a story, then how is Genre the Purpose of a story?
I asked this question of Chris Huntley, one of the co-creators of the theory of Dramatica, yesterday. How can Action/Adventure or Romantic Comedy be [...]

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The move is over and now I’ve finally got full time access to my Dramatica notebooks. Scanned through the first one and found a really interesting observation. This one is from a weekend workshop I took way back in October of 1998. Melanie Anne Phillips, the other co-creator of the theory, was [...]

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Chris reminded me of something today that I always thought was interesting.
Remember the basic Dramatica quad? Knowledge, Thought, Ability and Desire - (which can be represented by Mass, Energy, Space, and Time, etc.) Well, you can also examine the structure of sentence in the same way.
Again, as usual, this is a narrow left minded way of [...]

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Ever wonder why there are only 12 questions?
If everything in Dramatica is based around the quad - shouldn’t there be 16 questions?
There are only 12 questions because it is a justified view. It’s the only way you can have meaning. If you are going to make an argument (which Dramatica takes as a given when [...]

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As with all things Dramatica, the Main Character Dynamics (Resolve, Growth, Approach and Mental Sex) can be seen as relating together in a single quad.

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