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		<title>Dim Bulb ~or~ The Foibles of an Eccentric Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was first starting out in the film business, still at USC cinema as a matter of fact, I heard a story of a famous writer who loved to use just one make and model of typewriter &#8211; couldn&#8217;t write a lick on anything else.  He was so worried they&#8217;d stop making them that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concept for a Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is filled with opportunities to begin a story.  Sometimes you encounter a bit of news, observe an interpersonal interaction, or simply see a post on Google+ or Facebook. Today, for example, I was writing a private message on Facebook to my cousin about the ups and downs of life and when I re-read it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dramaticapedia.com/2012/01/18/concept-for-a-theme/</link>
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		<title>The Dramatica Concept</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years there&#8217;s been so much sophisticated material written about how Dramatica deals with all kinds of complex story issues that it is easy to forget about the central purpose of Dramatica in the first place. So, here&#8217;s a short article to help those of you new to Dramatica to get a grip on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fractal Psychology in the Real World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Response to a Dramatica User: What characters represent in the Story Mind is not their own psychology but rather just the small fragment of that overall entity. Essentially, in the story at large characters are nothing more than automatons &#8211; going about their functions as &#8220;intelligent agents&#8221; controlled from above (by the structure of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narrative Space in the Real World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I described how the term &#8220;narrative space&#8221; refers to the breadth and depth of the subject matter from which you will develop a story.  Like a cloud, the subject matter is just the raw material &#8211; a nebulous realm in which many story structures might be found.  Think of a story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dramaticapedia.com/2012/01/09/narrative-space-in-the-real-world/</link>
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		<title>Narrative Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Narrative Space&#8221; describes the complete breadth and depth of subject matter in which you seek to define a story. Simply put, most authors don&#8217;t come to a story with a complete structure immediately in mind.  Rather, they are attracted to the subject matter, which may include setting, time period, activities and events, personalities, snippets of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Dramatica&#8217;s Options Aren&#8217;t What I Want, What Then?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Dramatica user recently emailed to say she was stymied when she reached a point in the storyforming procedure and the options she wanted for a particular story point were grayed out and not available, even though she was structuring her already completed book and felt she had a solid &#8220;hero&#8217;s journey&#8221; arc. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dramaticapedia.com/2011/11/22/if-dramaticas-options-arent-what-i-want-what-then/</link>
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		<title>Do Stories Have 28 or 24 Scenes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Dramatica Theory Book, we lay out a method of story development that results in 28 scenes, each with a component of Character, Plot and Theme.  We also describe a 24 scene perspective of story structure.  Recently, a Dramatica user was having trouble seeing how the two apparently contradictory approaches related to one another.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dramaticapedia.com/2011/11/03/do-stories-have-28-or-24-scenes/</link>
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		<title>Character Development and the 28 &#8220;Magic&#8221; Scenes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Dramatica user recently asked a couple of questions about developing characters other than the Main and Impact (Obstacle) and also about Dramatica&#8217;s reference to &#8220;28 magic scenes&#8221; in one place and 24 scenes in another.   Here&#8217;s my reply &#8211; you&#8217;ll find the original questions at the end:   Hi, Heather.   Here’s some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dramaticapedia.com/2011/10/24/character-development-and-the-28-magic-scenes/</link>
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		<title>Using Dramatica for a How-To Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Dramatica user recently asked: I bought your Dramatica Pro software a couple of weeks ago and am finding it difficult to figure out how to use it for writing a how-to type of book. I&#8217;ve developed a few imaginary characters just so that I could work through your software and learn how it works, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dramaticapedia.com/2011/10/17/using-dramatica-for-a-how-to-book/</link>
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