{"id":8492,"date":"2023-08-28T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2023-08-28T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:58:13","slug":"scientific-american-style-article-on-dramatica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/scientific-american-style-article-on-dramatica\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific American Style Article on Dramatica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" data-attachment-id=\"8493\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/scientific-american-style-article-on-dramatica\/image-6-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-6.png\" data-orig-size=\"620,438\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-6-300x212.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-6.png\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-6.png 620w, https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-6-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 1993 Chris Huntley and I already written our book, Dramatica: A New Theory of Story, but felt that as we had no scientific credentials, perhaps we should prepare a concise &#8220;white paper&#8221; article describing the key concepts of Dramatica in a style similar to that of Scientific American magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the result in this <a href=\"http:\/\/storymind.com\/free-downloads\/sa_article.pdf\">PDF of the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per usual, I did pretty much all of the writing, Chris did all the editing and all the artwork and it was all based on the theory concepts we had developed together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the thirty years that followed, we&#8217;ve seen nothing to invalidate any of these notions, though we have learned better ways to explain them, and also more about the implications and applications of what this article contains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1993 Chris Huntley and I already written our book, Dramatica: A New Theory of Story, but felt that as we had no scientific credentials, perhaps we should prepare a concise &#8220;white paper&#8221; article describing the key concepts of Dramatica in a style similar to that of Scientific American magazine. 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