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Musings from Armando Saldaņa Mora

Admit it, Mr. Crichton...

Hi. I'll give myself a short introduction and then I'd like to discuss a question that surely troubles all Dramatica users:

I'm Armando Saldaņa. I live in Mexico city and -as supposed- Spanish is my first language, so forgive my horrifying use of English. I've been writing constantly for about 12 years, I've been selling fiction for the last five years, and I've been working on the Mexican television for the last year (yes, even script editor for the program of the guy on the cockroach suit). I've met Dramatica six months ago and became an instant addict, I even argue with my wife in terms of "You're not reducing my morality focus on your universe domain, you... Contagonist!"

Now for the question: I'm sure that the first question you had about Dramatica (specially after finding out the price) was "Does this stuff really works?" So you try to find out of a well known writer or story that was made using Dramatica and, guess what? you won't find none! And mostly because no one wants to tell. That's right. In the business you're as valuable as your "talent" (meant: your capacity to produce magic stories that everyone loves out of nowhere), and if a producer finds out you're using a creative software, he'll think "Well, the software wrote it, not that megalomaniac screenwriting bum! Cancel his check!" So you make a leap of fate and buy the program, you study it hard, struggles through it and write a complete story... Now here's the catch! I bet that most of you thought when the story was finished "Is this it? Gee, I could have written this myself in half the time with a hand tied up my back!" I made and experiment and went through my past teleplays. Through my new Dramatica look they seemed horrible to me! They were no structure, nothing happened, no one changed or had any challenge, every event seemed tacked on... So the next question arose: have the theory changed me or is it the software apreciations showing it's magic in my present work? let me rephrase: Can I now write Dramatica stories without using the software?

Have any of this happened to you?

What can you say about the "Does this stuff really works" predicament?

 
 

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Top Articles
 
Be a Storyweaver
NOT a Story Mechanic!
 
How to Create
Great Characters!


A Novelist's
Bag of Tricks

A Screenwriter's
Bag of Tricks

Character Arc 101

Heroes and Villains

Avoiding the
Genre Trap

Creating Characters from Plot

Browse All Articles
 

 

Top Classes
 
Progressive Plot Points
 
Audience "Reach"

A Story is an Argument

Dramatica Theory

The Story Mind

Time Locks and
Option Locks

The Four Throughlines Part One

The Four Throughlines Part Two

Browse All Classes
 

 

Top Downloads

StoryWeaver Demo
 
Dramatica Demo

Movie Magic Demo

Power Structure Demo

Dramatica
Theory Book

Dramatica
Comic Book

Dramatica
Structure Chart

Browse All Downloads
 

 


Our Bestseller!

StoryWeaver

Write Your Novel
or Screenplay
Step by Step
 

  
$29.95
 

 


12 Hour
Writing Course

  
Learn Story Structure
 
PE03328A.gif (2743 bytes)
  
$19.95

 


Writer's DreamKit

Essential Structure
 
Dramatica Writers DreamKit 4.0
  
$49.95
 

 


Dramatica
 
Perfect Structure
 
Dramatica Pro 4.0<br>Plus FREE Bonus!
  
$179.95
 


 
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