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Tips for Story Structure and Storytelling

Character Tips   Plot Tips   Theme Tips   Genre Tips 

Dramatica Software   Dramatica Q & A


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Be a Story Weaver - NOT a Story Mechanic!

How to Create Great Characters!

Beating Writer's Block

Heroes & Villains

Conflict Can Limit Your Characters

Subplots

Writing From A Character's Point Of View

Psychoanalyze Your Story

Constructive Criticisms

Writing Characters Of The Opposite Sex

 

Character Tips

How to Create Great Characters!

Heroes & Villains

Conflict Can Limit Your Characters

To Change, or NOT to Change...

Psychoanalyze Your Story

On Archetypes

Love Interests & the Dramatic Triangle

The Chemistry of Characters

Writing from a Character's Point of View

Writing Characters of the Opposite Sex

What's Your Character's Purpose?

Subjective Characters

Main Character "Resolve"

I, Main Character

"I, Freudius"

The XX and XY Files

Character Justification

Which archetypes are usually
the Main and Obstacle Characters?

Is the Emotion Archetype most often
the Love Interest and Obstacle Character?

Can a do-er change to a be-er
over the course of the story?

Defining the Main Character
in stories with multiple narrators

Dramatica Visits South Park

South Park Revisited

Mental Sexplanation

Character Elements and Theme

Emotion Archetype as the Obstacle Character

Is Objective Character
the same as Obstacle character?

Noa's Archetypes

Problems and Dilemmas

Natural Born Killers: Guilty as (Sin) Charged

Fried Rice:
The Tale of the Vampire Chronicles

Dramatica and Problem Solving

True Liabilities

How characters, plot, and theme interrelate

From the Dramatica Theory Book:

Chapter 3: INTRODUCTION TO CHARACTERS

Chapter 4: Objective Characters

Chapter 5: Drivers and Passengers

Chapter   6: Character Elements intro

Chapter 7: 16 Character Motivation Elements

Chapter 8: Complex Characters in Gone With the Wind

Chapter 9: Complex Characters in Rear Window

Chapter 10: Other Character Dimensions

Chapter 11: Character Problem Solving and Justification

Chapter 21: Storytelling and Character Dynamics

Chapter 27: Storytelling and Encoding Objective Characters

Chapter 28: Storytelling and Encoding Subjective Characters

From Dramatica: The "Lost" Theory Book

The Lost Theory Book: New Methodology Archetypes

The Lost Theory Book: New Evaluation Archetypes

The Lost Theory Book: New Purpose Archetypes

 

Plot Tips

Plot Holes

Subplots

A Story's "Limit"

How characters, plot, and theme interrelate

True Liabilities

Illegal Plot Progressions

Tips from Dramatica Users -
Encoding Signposts & Journeys

Storytelling and Encoding Plot

Tips from Dramatica Users -
"Avoid getting lost in Storyweaving"

Storyweaving Tips

How to tell when your storyform is right

Dramatica Visits South Park

How do you apply Dramatica to short stories?

The XX and XY Files

The Answer to All Your Troubles (Part 1)

The Answer to All Your Troubles (Part 2)

Dramatica3

Dramatica Letter #4

Letters to Dramatica

Storyweaving and Storytelling

Jurassic Park: Building A Better Dinosaur

From the Dramatica Theory Book

Chapter 16: Plot vs. Storyweaving

Chapter 17:Plot Appreciations

Chapter 18: The Progression of Plot

Chapter 20: Section Two: The Art of Storytelling: Introduction

Chapter 22: Storytelling and Plot Dynamics

Chapter 23: Storytelling and Storyforming Structural Appreciations

Chapter 24: Storytelling and Plot Appreciations

From Dramatica: The Lost Theory Book

Dramatica: The Lost Theory Book - How Stories Came to Be...


Theme Tips

Theme: An Emotional Argument

Storytelling and Encoding Theme

How characters, plot, and theme interrelate

Character Elements and Theme

True Liabilities

From the Dramatica Theory Book

Chapter 11: Deep Theory: Problem Solving and Justification

Chapter 12: The Elements of Structure: Theme

Chapter 13: Domain Descriptions

Chapter 15: Deep Theme Theory

Chapter 25: Storytelling and Thematic Appreciations

From Dramatica: The Lost Theory Book

Dramatica: The Lost Theory Book - Theme

 

Genre Tips

A New Approach to Genre

How does Dramatica deal with Genre?

Storytelling and Encoding Genre

Tips from Dramatica Users -
"Avoid getting lost in Storyweaving"

How to tell when your storyform is right

How do you apply Dramatica to short stories?

The Answer to All Your Troubles (Part 2)

Dramatica Theory Book - Chapter 38

Storyweaving Tips

From the Dramatica Theory Book

Chapter 19: Elements of Structure: Genre

 

Dramatica Software Tips

What Is Dramatica?

The Creative Way to Use Dramatica

Dramatica for structural or passionate writers

How to Tell if Your Story's Structure is Right

Does Dramatica Limit Your Story?

Where to Start

The Dangers of Micromanging Your Story

Is Dramatica Binary?

Dramatica's 12 Essential Questions - Overview

Main Character Resolve

Introduction to the Dramatica Structure Chart

The Dramatica Structure - Elements

Dramatica's Split Personality: Theory or Software

 

Dramatica Q & A

(Answers to writers' and users' questions
about the Dramatica theory and software.)

NOTE: Most of these require some previous knowledge of Dramatic Theory, which can be obtained by reading the free online book:

Dramatica: A New Theory of Story.

An Overview of Dramatica

Character

Genre

Storyforming

Storyencoding

Dramatica Software Tips

The Psychology of Story

Tips from Dramatica Users

Comments from Writers

 

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