Book, Videos & Audios on Creative Writing, Novel Writing, Screenwriting & Story Structure

Books & Videos

Software

StoryWeaver

$29.95

A step by step approach to story development, from concept to completed story for your novel or screenplay. More than 200 interactive Story Cards guide you through the entire process.

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Dramatica

$149.95

The most powerful story structuring software available, Dramatica is driven by a patented "Story Engine" that cross-references your dramatic choices to ensure a perfect structure.

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Movie Magic Screenwriter

$149.95

The most advanced screenwriting software available, Movie Magic is deemed a "preferred file format" by the Writer's Guild. An industry standard, MMS is used by professionals and studios around the world.

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Throughline Index Cards

$9.95

Interactive index cards - Name them, add notes, titles, colors, click and drag to re-arrange, adjust font, save, export and print. An essential tool for every writer.

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Bestsellers on Creative Writing and
Story Structure from Storymind Press

50 Sure-First Storytelling Tricks!

It's not just what you say but how you say it. These fifty powerful and immediately useful "sure-fire" tips, tricks and techniques will super charge your storytelling and add life, interest, and sophistication to your novel or screenplay.

Paperback for $7.95 or Kindle for $2.99

12 Hour Writing Course Video Program

This is the definitive story structure course from Storymind and Melanie Anne Phillips, co-creator of Dramatica. Get the entire 12 hours of streaming video and also download if you like. Covers characters, plot, theme, genre, storyforming story encoding, story weaving and reception.

View Samples or Order Now for just $19.95

How to Beat Writer’s Block!

Hit a creative log-jam? This collection of tips, tricks and techniques will get your Muse un-stuck and your story rolling again.

Together, they cover the spectrum of productive difficulties from finding inspiration to boosting creativity.

Download to your Kindle for $2.99

Dramatica: Inside the Clockwork

This book delves deeply into the reasoning behind the design and construction of the Dramatica model of story structure, the underpinnings of theory beneath the level of narrative, and provides a view of the elegance an grandeur of Dramatica from a perspective seldom seen: from within the model itself.

Paperback for $14.95 or Kindle for $5.99

Dramatica: A New Theory of Story

This is the definitive guide to the most profoundly original and complete paradigm of story since Aristotle wrote Poetics. This book is chock-full of stunning solutions to vexing story structure and development problems that have mystified and tormented writers for ages. An absolute must read for any writer who wants to elevate the quality of their written work.

Paperback for $19.95 or Kindle for $7.99

“Hero” is a Four Letter Word

If you are only writing with Heroes and Villains, you are limiting your stories!

Heroes and Villains are stereotypes, not archetypes. comprised of a number of attributes which can be reassembled in different ways to create far more interesting and original leading characters.

Download to your Kindle for $.99

Dramatica: The “Lost” Theory Book

Before the final version of Dramatica – a New Theory of Story there was an earlier draft that contained unfinished concepts and additional theory This material was never fully developed, and was cut from the final version of the book. Recently, a copy of this early draft surfaced in the theory archives. The following are excerpts from this “lost” text."

Download to your Kindle for $2.99

Beyond Dramatica

Dramatica is more than just a writer's tool to construct fictional stories; by its very nature it has implications in the realm of human psychology at large. This book gathers together some of the most insightful articles by Melanie on the application of Dramatica to the real world.

Download to your Kindle for $1.99

A Few Words About Theme

Theme is perhaps the most powerful, yet least understood element of story structure because theme is an emotional argument.

This collection of essays on the structure and storytelling of theme will open your eyes to tried and true methods to bring your story's message alive and infuse it with meaning.

Download to your Kindle for $.99

Other Works by Melanie Anne Phillips

The Cosmic Flea (Poems & Lyrics)

A journey of discovery - of self and of existence. This collection of poems and lyrics from Melanie Anne Phillips (co-creator of the Dramatica Theory of Story) is not only entertaining but enlightening and thought provoking as well.

Paperback for $4.99 or Kindle for $2.99

Tarnished Karma 1 (Dichotomy)

From the 1980’s, an album of original songs and experimental music written by Melanie Anne Phillips and performed by Tarnished Karma with Melanie on Keyboard, synth and back-up vocals.

Hear samples or purchase album or individual songs