Click
on each thumbnail for a larger screenshot view.
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.
StoryGuide
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.
Gists
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.
Gist
Manager
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.
Master
Story Engine
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.
Player
Information
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.
Plot
Progression
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.
Character
Casting
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.
Asssign
Characteristics
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.
Getting
Started Screen
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.
Theme
Browser
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.
Project
Information
Add
detailed information about your project including reference materials,
sources, and synopses for the Overall Story throughline and the
Relationship throughline.