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Write Your Novel
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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.
~ Step 40 ~
Story Goal
Some novice writers become so wrapped up in interesting events and bits of action that they forget to have a central unifying goal that gives purpose to all the other events that take place. This creates a plot without a core.
But determining your story's goal can be difficult, especially if your story is character oriented, and not really about a Grand Quest.
For example, in the movie "Four Weddings and a Funeral," all the characters are struggling with their relationships and not working toward an apparent common purpose. There is a goal, however, and it is to find happiness in a relationship.
This type of goal is called a "Collective Goal" since it is not about trying to achieve the same thing, but the same kind of thing.
So don't try to force some external, singular purpose on your story if it isn't appropriate. But do find the common purpose in which all your characters share a critical interest.
Referring to your story synopsis, have you included a Goal in which all the characters are involved?
If so, describe it below in as much detail as readily comes to mind.
If not, consider your subject matter and the activities in which your characters engage. What singular achievement would affect them all for better or worse?
