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The Grand Argument Story
by Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley
co-creators of the Dramatica Theory
Grand Argument Stories
The question arises: Is telling a story
better than telling a non-story? No. Stories are not “better” than any other
form of communication — just different. To see this difference we need to
define “story” so we can tell what a story is and what it is not. Herein
lies a political problem. No matter how one defines “story,” there will be
an author someplace who finds his favorite work has been defined out, and feels
it is somehow diminished by not being classified as a story. Rather than risk
the ire of countless creative authors, we have limited our definition to a very
special kind of story: the Grand Argument Story.
As its name indicates, a Grand Argument Story presents an argument.
To be Grand, the argument must be a complete one, covering all the ways the
human mind might consider a problem and showing that only one approach is
appropriate to solving it. Obviously, this limits out a lot of creative,
artistic, important works — but not out of being stories, just out of being
Grand Argument Stories. So, is a Grand Argument Story better than any other
kind? No. It is just a specific kind.
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About Dramatica and
StoryWeaver
What They Do
Dramatica is a tool to help you
build a perfect story structure. StoryWeaver is a tool to help you build
your story's world.
Dramatica focuses on the underlying logic of your
story, making sure there are no holes or inconsistencies.
StoryWeaver
focuses on the creative process, boosting your inspiration and guiding it to add
depth, detail and passion to your story.
How They Do It
Dramatica has the world's only
patented interactive Story Engine™ which cross-references your answers to
questions about your dramatic intent, then finds any weaknesses in your
structure and even suggests the best ways to strengthen them.
StoryWeaver uses a revolutionary new
creative format as you follow more than 200 Story Cards™ step by step through
the story development process. You'll design the people who'll inhabit
your story's world, what happens to them, and what it all means.
How They Work Alone
By itself Dramatica appeals to
structural writers who like to work out all the details of their stories
logically before they write a word.
By itself, StoryWeaver appeals to
intuitive writers who like to follow their Muse and develop their stories as
they go.
How They Work
Together
But, the finished work of a
structural writer can often lack passion, which is where StoryWeaver can help.
And the finished work of an intuitive writer can often lack direction, which is
where Dramatica can help.
So, while each kind of writer will
find one program or the other the most initially appealing, both kinds of
writers can benefit from both programs.
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