Thousands of writers use StoryWeaver to build their story’s world, characters, plot, theme,
and genre.
Thousands of writers use Dramatica to find and refine their story’s structure and to find and fix holes and missteps.
- 200 Interactive Story Cards guide you from concept to completion, step by step.
- Help Buttons with Writing Tips, Example Stories, Hints, and Tricks.
- Work on multiple stories at once.
- Jot down creative notes from anywhere in StoryWeaver.
- Placeholder: Pick up writing where you left off.
- Develop multiple levels of detail for your plot and characters.
- Intuitive navigation path helps you follow your Muse.
- Works on any device: desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, Windows, Macintosh, iOs, Android & Chrome
- Patented Story Engine cross- references your dramatic choices to create a structure map.
- AI style narrative model finds holes, missteps and suggests how to fix & fill them.
- Automatically generates a timeline from your story’s structural map.
- Offers three levels of detail depending on the complexity of your story.
- Includes hundreds of examples, tips, tricks, and techniques.
- Comes with more than sixty structural maps for classic and popular novels, movies and stage plays.

Don’t let holes and inconsistencies
ruin the potential of your story…
Our patented Interactive Story Engine ensures perfect structure
The heart of Dramatica software is its patented story engine that keeps track of every choice you make for your story, cross references their collective dramatic impact and alerts you to any holes or inconsistencies in your structure. Your story will be become ever more solid every step of the way through development.
Makes Suggestions To Improve Your Structure
Dramatica’s story engine not only tracks holes and inconsistencies, but also provides suggestions for the dramatic elements needed to fill and fix them. You’ll always know what to do to solve your story problems.
Develops Detailed and Structurally Sound Characters
Dramatica’s Build Characters tool enables you to select from a palette of traits and elements and assemble them into structurally sound characters who have a real purpose in your story. You can built anything from archetypes to complex characters to single-purpose characters and stereotypes. You’ll always know who your characters are and why they are there.
Builds Your Plot in Signposts and Journeys
Dramatica gives your plot a complete timeline, marked out in signposts and journeys. In the Plot Progression area, you’ll see how your characters’ arcs interact with the flow of your plot so each drives the other, integrating the human and logistic aspects of your story. With Dramatica’s guidance on plot, you’ll always know what happens in Act 2!
Helps With Inspiration, Development, Exposition and Storytelling
Dramatica’s Brainstorming section will help you choose a structure from over 30,000 available! You can then tailor each to your particular story while ensuring you maintain a solid structure. Dramatica will suggest characters for your story, with slider controls to determine the balance of traits and attributes. Get Step by Step guidance with the StoryGuide, which takes you point by point through the entire development process. Every story point provides examples from well-known novels, stage plays and movies that share your dramatics. Build your story chapter by chapter or scene by scene with Dramatica’s templates for novels and screenplays.
Try It Risk Free For 90 Days
Still not sure? We offer a “no questions asked” 90 day money back guarantee. If you don’t find Dramatica to be the most useful writing tool you own, simply return it (or delete the downloadable version) and we’ll refund your entire purchase price.
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perfect story structure!
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For 90 Days!
Not compatible
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