{"id":2595,"date":"2017-09-01T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T20:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2018-10-07T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T16:56:58","slug":"enough-theory-how-does-dramatica-work-on-real-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/enough-theory-how-does-dramatica-work-on-real-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Theory!  How Does Dramatica Work on REAL Stories?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Dramaticapedia reader:<\/p>\n<p><em>Your blogs seem to be always in the abstract. Let\u2019s see something about a successful story in the real world.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I would love to see a Dramatica setup for real stories that have been successful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My reply:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a link to more than 70 complete analyses of novels, movies, stage plays, and television programs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dramatica.com\/analysis\/comprehensive\">http:\/\/dramatica.com\/analysis\/comprehensive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now here\u2019s a link to almost 200 additional \u201craw\u201d storyforms (just the 80+ Story Engine settings) for a number of popular stories in various media:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dramatica.com\/analysis\">http:\/\/dramatica.com\/analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another link to an ongoing series of podcasts, each analyzing a different story in various media:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dramatica.com\/audio\">http:\/\/dramatica.com\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, here\u2019s a link to some analysis videos as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dramatica.com\/video\">http:\/\/dramatica.com\/video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for my posts being abstract, yep, you\u2019re right \u2013 I\u2019m the abstract one. Chris, the other co-creator of Dramatica is the more practical-minded of the two of us. (All the above links come from his company\u2019s web site, which is far more focused on application.)<\/p>\n<p>The way we work is, I advance the edges of the theory and he figures out how to put it to work. When he turns one of my concepts into something tangible, I used that as a platform to reach for the next concept. That is why we have worked so well together for over 20 years, and why Dramatica has become both\u00a0so extensive in theory\u00a0and useful as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Melanie Anne Phillips<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Co-creator, <a href=\"http:\/\/storymind.com\/dramatica_pro.htm\">Dramatica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"obi_random_banners_posts\" class=\"obi_random_banners_posts\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-Made-First-Hour-Event-ebook\/dp\/B09WYXMFBV\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-27-3.58.58-PM.png\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Dramaticapedia reader: Your blogs seem to be always in the abstract. Let\u2019s see something about a successful story in the real world.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I would love to see a Dramatica setup for real stories that have been successful. My reply: Here\u2019s a link to more than 70 complete analyses of novels, movies, stage plays, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dramatica"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-FR","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}