Category Archives: The Story Mind

How stories and life relate

What’s In Your Story’s Mind?

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

As with people, your story’s mind has different aspects. These are represented in your Genre, Theme, Plot, and Characters. Genre is the overall personality of the Story Mind. Theme represents its troubled value standards. Plot describes the methods the Story … Continue reading →

Posted in Dramatica Concepts, Narrative Science, The Story Mind | Comments Off on What’s In Your Story’s Mind?

Why a “Story Mind?”

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

The Story Mind concept is a way of visualizing story structure that sees every story as having a mind of its own and the characters within it as facets of that overall mind.  So, one character represents the Intellect of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Concepts, Dramatica Basic Concepts, Narrative Science, The Story Mind | Comments Off on Why a “Story Mind?”

The “Story Mind” Concept

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

  The Story Mind concept is a way of looking at a story as if all the characters were facets of a larger personality, the mind of the Story itself. To illustrate, imagine that you stepped back from your story … Continue reading →

Posted in The Story Mind | Comments Off on The “Story Mind” Concept

The Four Stages of Story Development

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

A writing tip from StoryWeaver Story Development Software Authors differ in many ways in how they approach the creation of a story, yet there are four stages in the process through which each author must travel: 1.  Inspiration 2.  Development … Continue reading →

Posted in The Story Mind | Comments Off on The Four Stages of Story Development

The Story Mind (Part 10) – The Four Throughlines

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Excerpted from the Book “Dramatica Unplugged“ By Melanie Anne Phillips, Co-creator of Dramatica The structure of a story, then, is the psychology of a single mind made tangible. For the story to be sound and ring true, the psychology must be complete … Continue reading →

Posted in The Story Mind | Comments Off on The Story Mind (Part 10) – The Four Throughlines

The Story Mind (Part 9) – The Story Mind Revisited

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Excerpted from the Book “Dramatica Unplugged“ By Melanie Anne Phillips, Co-creator of Dramatica So what, exactly, is the Story Mind made of? Dramatica says that “Every complete story is an analogy to a single mind trying to deal with an inequity.” Now … Continue reading →

Posted in The Story Mind | Comments Off on The Story Mind (Part 9) – The Story Mind Revisited

The Story Mind (Part 6) – Audience Reach

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Excerpted from the Book “Dramatica Unplugged“ By Melanie Anne Phillips, Co-creator of Dramatica Who is your audience? And for that matter, does a single story structure affect all audience members equally? Let’s find out…. In Dramatica, there are some story points that … Continue reading →

Posted in Dramatica Theory, The Story Mind | Comments Off on The Story Mind (Part 6) – Audience Reach

The Story Mind (Part 5) – The Grand Argument Story

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Excerpted from the Book “Dramatica Unplugged“ By Melanie Anne Phillips, Co-creator of Dramatica Over the years a number of my students have asked how the Dramatica chart can possibly describe the fullness of the human experience, especially since we, as a species, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dramatica Theory, The Story Mind | Comments Off on The Story Mind (Part 5) – The Grand Argument Story

The Story Mind (Part 4) – The Dramatica Chart

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Excerpted from the Book “Dramatica Unplugged“ By Melanie Anne Phillips, Co-creator of Dramatica A part of the Dramatica Theory book, we developed the Dramatica Chart of Story Elements (which is not unlike the Periodic Table of Elements in chemistry). Download a free … Continue reading →

Posted in The Story Mind, Writing Tip of the Day | Comments Off on The Story Mind (Part 4) – The Dramatica Chart

The Story Mind (Part 3) – A Story Is An Argument

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Excerpted from the Book “Dramatica Unplugged“ By Melanie Anne Phillips, Co-creator of Dramatica So a tale is a simple linear path that the author promotes as being either a good or bad one to take, depending on the outcome. There’s a certain … Continue reading →

Posted in The Story Argument, The Story Mind, Writing Tip of the Day | Comments Off on The Story Mind (Part 3) – A Story Is An Argument