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Character Tips

The following articles on structuring and writing Characters have been assembled from all over the Web Site for your convenience.

Document Title:

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

 

 

 

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Index of Dramatica Theory Materials

Storymind.com is pleased to present this collection of materials about the Dramatica Theory of Story. We hope you find it both useful and through-provoking.

This information is divided into three sections:

The Dramatica Theory
A complete exploration of the theory in every detail

Historic Documents
The development of Dramatica from the beginning

Speculations
Dramatica applied to psychology, physics, religion and more

The Dramatica Theory

Dramatica Theory Book Online
Free online edition of the 400+ page book, Dramatica: A New theory of Story, in which Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley originally documented their work.

Dramatica Dictionary
Official definitions of all terms in the Dramatica theory and software.

Dramatica Writing Tips
Useful and informative articles on how to approach and employ both the Dramatica Theory and Software.

Constructive Criticisms
Practical illustrations of how applying the Dramatica theory could have made some well-known successful story's even better!

Dramatica Q & A
Answers to questions from users of the Dramatica Theory and Software.

Instant Dramatica
Even more directly practical essays on using Dramatica for real-world writing situations and problems provided by noted screenwriter Armando Saldaņa Mora.

Historic Documents

Dramatica - The Lost Theory Book
Early attempts to document the theory, including many unfinished conjectures and false starts.

Dramatica Development Archives
Early documents created during the development of the foundations of Dramatica.  Often later discarded, they show the roots of the thinking that ultimately evolved into the theory as it stands today.

Speculations

Deep Theory
Transcript of a class on the outer fringes of Dramatica Theory I taught as part of a now-defunct Dramatica Certification course.

Dramatica Math
A mathematician takes a stab at describing the Dramatica model in terms of dimensional distortions.

Mental Relativity
An exploration of the theory of psychology modeling which grew out of the development of Dramatica.

Dramatica I Ching
Several of our users have noticed a similarity between the character grid in Dramatica and the elements of the traditional I Ching.  Though unintentional, perhaps all models that look deeply into the mind will resemble each other.

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