Dramatica Definition: Future

Future (The Future)• [Type] • what will happen or what will be • A story focusing on the Future concerns itself with what will be. This does not require the story to be “set” in the Future — only that the Future state of external and/or internal issues is the subject that is being addressed. A character centered on Future may be trying to discover what will be or may be trying a achieve a particular state of affairs down the line. In both the Story and Character sense, the end is more important than the present although it still may not justify the means • syn. what is to come, what will be, prospect, prospective • dyn.pr. Progress