There are some very interesting relationships in Dramatica that aren’t covered in the manual or in the software itself.
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explaining the Dramatica quad
March 31st, 2006 · No Comments
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no story without an inciting incident
March 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment
If you’re analyzing a film, or writing one of your own, and you’re having trouble identifying that first Driver event (which most people refer to as the Inciting Incident), there is something you should consider.
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Dramatica Simplified
July 19th, 2005 · 5 Comments
Dramatica can seem a bit overwhelming when you first start out. I remember flipping through the dictionary at the back of the theory book and thinking, “This is insane!”
But after eight years of working with it, I’ve got the model pretty much memorized (at least down to the Variation level) and have a pretty good [...]
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plot dynamics explained
June 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments
So now on to the Plot Dynamics - the Driver, the Limit, the Outcome and the Judgment. The character dynamics explain how things are spatially related to one another, while the Plot dynamics explain how things are temporally related to one another.
So if you think about your story in the context of Time, the Driver [...]
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