Category Archives: StoryWeaver Software

Welcome to StoryWeaver – your step by step path to a completed novel, screenplay, or other narrative manuscript. StoryWeaver is so named because it employs a technique for drawing story threads from your original concept much as a weaver might … Continue reading →

Step 2 from the more than 200 steps in our StoryWeaver Story Development Software: Getting Started How to get started? It’s easy as 1, 2, 3… 1. Read the instructions on each Story Card (like this one). Sometimes the Story … Continue reading →

When Chris Huntley and I created the Dramatica Theory of Narrative Structure back in the early 90’s, we originally envisioned it as the end-all of story models – the one single paradigm that explained it all. In fact, it was – … Continue reading →

When Chris Huntley and I created the Dramatica Theory of Narrative Structure back in the early 90’s, we originally envisioned it as the end-all of story models – the one single paradigm that explained it all. In fact, it was – … Continue reading →

The StoryWeaver Method is a step by step approach to developing your novel or screenplay. StoryWeaver will help you create your story’s world, who’s in it, what happens to them, and what it all means. The StoryWeaver Method ~ Step … Continue reading →

StoryWeaver is a list of over 200 questions, each building on the last as you develop your story step by step. You start with the first question, then just go down the list, one question at a time, follow the … Continue reading →

A writer recently asked: Just purchased the software. But am clueless how to use it and how to derive the maximum benefit out of it. Kindly mail me the links/articles which will help me understand the program and its concept … Continue reading →

By Melanie Anne Phillips In this overview video I introduce the concept behind StoryWeaver and explore its key features.  Read my additional text below the video for more details… When I created the first version of StoryWeaver way back in 2001, … Continue reading →

By Melanie Anne Phillips This article is excerpted from my book, 50 Sure-Fire Storytelling Tricks! In it, you’ll learn how some goals are not one thing everyone is after, but one kind of thing. ******* Some novice writers become so wrapped … Continue reading →