*Be a Story Weaver – NOT a Story Mechanic*
	Too many writers fall into the trap of making Structure their Story God. There’s no denying that structure is important, but paying too much attention to structure can destroy your story. Although some writers are natural born StoryWeavers, there is still hope for the rest of us. In fact, you can become a StoryWeaver just by practicing a few select techniques until they become second nature.
*A Novelist’s Bag of Tricks*
	Remember those “grab bags” you found when you were a kid at a toy store, discount store or county fair? Inside was a whole collection of little treasures that were collectively worth a lot more than you paid – but you never knew what you were going to get until you looked inside. In that spirit, here’s a “grab bag” of tips, tricks and techniques any novelist can use to improve his or her work.
*Creating Characters from Plot*
	Even if all you have is a log line or thumbnail sketch of your plot, this method will enable you to create a whole cast of characters to populate your story. In addition, the work you do developing these characters will, in turn, create additional story lines and details for your plot as well!

Using Dramatica Software

*The Dramatica Pro 4 Desktop – Part 1 – The Story Guide*
	Learn how the Story Guide feature takes you from concept to completed structure, step by step.
*The Dramatica Pro 4 Desktop – Part 2 – The Help System*
	Here you’ll learn all about how to structure stories and how to use all of Dramatica Pro’s story development features.
*The Dramatica Pro 4 Desktop – Part 3 – Story Examples*
	Dramatica Pro ships with over 60 extensive pre-built story structures based on successful popular and classic books, movies, stage plays and television programs.

Beyond Dramatica

*Behind the Quad (1 of 3)*
	The “Quad” is the basic unit or module from which the Dramatica Story Structure is built. It represents relationships among four items, such as Mass, Energy, Space and Time or Knowledge, Thought, Ability and Desire. The Quad is functional for both direct interactions of the four items, but also for relativistic interdependencies, such as “Space/Time” or “DesirAbility”. The Quad form is such a useful way of organizing data in a balanced system that it can enhance our abilities to understand patterns in such other diverse fields as psychology and physics.
*Behind the Quad (2 of 3)*
	The “quad” is the basic building block of Dramatica story structure. In this installment, we attempt to “get a feel” for how the quad works and what it really means as a foundation to explaining the “nuts and bolts” of quad theory.
*Behind the Quad (3 of 3)*
	How Dramatica’s quad structure represent mental processes, treated as objects. And how the quad indicates the helical (spiral) patterns of thought in the fractal mind.
*Theory Isn’t Pretty*
	Ever wonder how the Dramatica theory was created? Find out what is it like to be on the bleeding edge of theory development with this recent entry from my personal theory development journal. In it, you’ll see the hazy edges of the outward advance of the Dramatica theory. Very rough, almost fragmented, but a glimpse at the Next Big Thing.