Project
Overview
The
project overview shows you your story at a glance. It lets you identify
your story's title, author, log line, and brief synopsis. The project
overview also shows you the four key threads, or throughlines, in your
story. These include the "big picture" thread of the Overall
Story throughline, the personal thread of the Main Character, the impact
of the Influence Character, and the heart thread of the story in the
Relationship throughline.
Use the Icon Toolbar to navigate to Dramatica Story Expert’s major features and windows.
There's only one way to write your story -- your way. StoryGuide leads you step-by-step through the ideal path to creating your unique story. Quick Start gives you instant feedback, Advanced guide takes you from beginning to end.
Building on Dramatica Pro's outstanding question and answer system, Dramatica Story Expert lets you customize Dramatica's terminology with "gists," short descriptive phrases, so that questions conform to your writing style and the story's subject matter.
Manage your collections of gists with the gist manager. In addition to the 12,000+ generalized gists that comes with the software, you may create your own specialized gist collections and share them with other writers.
One of Dramatica Story Expert’s more advanced features is the new Master Story Engine. The master story engine gives you fifty-six story points with which to control the story’s underlying storyform. As you make specific story point choices, Dramatica’s interactive story engine shows the effect on the remaining story points. By identifying the parts of the story you know best first, the story engine automatically identifies the implied items that support your choices. Dramatica is the only system that can tell you more about your underlying story dramatics than you tell it.
Delve into each characters background, habits, and other details in the player information windows. Add new players and edit or remove existing players to create just the right balance for your story.
Dramatica shows you the linear act structure of your story's 4 throughlines from beginning to middle to end. Each throughline has 4 plot points-signposts indicating how the story will spin from act to act-and 3 acts-your characters' emotional journeys from one plot point to the next.
Visualize your characters by casting them from your choice of over 750 player pictures or importing your own pictures. Name them from a database of over 10,000 unique names.
Interesting. Deep. Real. Memorable. Dramatica helps you craft characters that leap off the page and into the hearts and minds of your audience. Define the relationships between your characters by assigning thematic elements to character icons. Explore character relationships and see how they help or hinder each other. Decide what's motivating your characters and how they'll express the central themes of your story.
Start off right with Dramatica Story Expert's Getting Started window. Create new projects, open previous project or example files, or explore the many forms of help available to new users.
See how all your story's thematic elements interconnect in one place. Zoom in to focus on one area of your story, or zoom out to get a bird's eye view of the big picture.
Add detailed information about your project including reference materials, sources, and synopses for the Overall Story throughline and the Relationship throughline.