Dramatica Theory

Concepts, Uses and Examples of the Dramatica Theory:

The Dramatica Theory of Story Structure

What is Dramatica?

Dramatica: Theory of Story or Software Product?

Dramatica – Where’d the Idea Come From?

The “Main Character Resolve” Concept

Using “Main Character Resolve” in Your Story

The Concept of Main Character Growth

Using Do-er and Be-er Characters

Creativity vs. Dramatica

The Concept Behind Mental Sex

Writing with Mental Sex

The “Story Driver” Concept

Writing with a Story Limit

Writing Your Story’s Outcome

Writing Your Story’s Judgement

Writing Your Story’s Concluding Judgment

Choosing an Objective Domain for Your Story

Defining Your Story’s “Class”

Stories About Manipulation and Manners of Thinking

Stories About Fixed Attitudes (Mind Stories)

What is the “Objective Story Concern”?

Choosing a “Concern” for Your Story

Example of a Story Concerned with the Present

Ideas for Stories Concerned with Understanding

Examples of Stories Concerned with Understanding

The Objective Story Issue

Ideas for Stories Concerned with the Present

Examples of Stories Concerned with “The Future”

Examples of Stories Concerned with “Progress”

Examples of Stories Concerned with “The Past”

Story Ideas Concerning “The Future”

Story Ideas Concerning “Progress”

Ideas for Stories Concerned with “The Past”

Stories About Activities (Physics Stories)

Stories That Explore Situations (Objective Universe Stories)

Story Structure: Examples of “Mind” Stories

Story Structure: Examples of “Psychology” Stories

Story Strucutre: Examples of “Physics” Stories

Story Structure: Examples of Universe Stories

Dramatica Writing Software: Choosing an Objective Story Domain

Stories with a Judgment of Bad

Stories with a Judgment of Good

Story Structure: Examples of “Bad” as the Judgment

Story Structure: Examples of Universe Stories

Choosing an Objective Domain for Your Story

Defining Your Story’s “Class”

Dramatica Writing Software: Choosing an Objective Story Domain

Stories with a Judgment of Bad

Stories with a Judgment of Good

Story Structure: Examples of “Bad” as the Judgment

Writing Your Story’s Judgement

Writing Your Story’s Concluding Judgment

Story Points: Judgment

Stories with an Outcome of Failure

Stories with an Outcome of Success

Story Structure: Examples of Failure as the Outcome

Story Structure: Examples of a Successful Outcome

Story Concept: Success or Failure?

Story Points: Success or Failure?

Stories with Option Locks

Stories with Time Locks

Story Structure: Examples of Option Locks

Story Structure: Examples of Time Locks

Writing Within Limits

Story Point: Limit

Stories Driven by Decisions

The Dramatica Chart

Stories Driven by Action

Examples of “Decision” as the Story Driver

Examples of Action as the Story Driver

Writing with the Story Driver

What is Your Story Driver?

Stories with Female Mental Sex Main Characters

Stories with Male Mental Sex Main Characters

Examples of Female Mental Sex Main Characters

Examples of Male Mental Sex Characters

Story Point: Mental Sex

Stories with Do-er Characters

Stories with Be-er Characters

Story Point: Your Main Character – “Do-er” or “Be-er”?

Stories with Main Characters Who “Start”

Stories with Main Characters Who Stop

Examples of Main Characters Who “Stop”

Examples of Main Characters Who “Start”

Writing with “Start” and “Stop” Main Characters

Story Point: Main Character Growth

Stories with Main Characters Who Remain Steadfast

Examples of Steadfast Main Characters

Stories with Main Characters Who Change

Examples of Main Characters who Change

Story Point: Main Character Resolve

A Talk On Dramatica

Characters, Dramatica Style (mp3)

Media & The Individual

The XX and XY Files

Fried Rice: The Tale of “The Vampire Chronicles”

Natural Born Killers: Guilty As Charged

True Liabilities: A Constructive Criticism of “True Lies”

Jurassic Park: Building A Better Dinosaur

Robert McKee

What Determines Plot Progression Sequences?

Domain Placement in Story Structure

Dramatica’s Plot Sequence Report – Deep Theory

“Illegal” Plot Progressions

A Story’s Limit

Mental Sex: The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Slicing and Dicing Stories

Story Perspective

A Dramatica look at “Ability”