Star Trek: The Case for Writing a Screenplay with Dramatica

Narrative First: where story is always king

English - July 27, 2016 01:08 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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In this episode we explore the Dramatica theory of story and how its ability to predict the intuition of a writer could possibly be the sole remaining piece of magic left on the planet. We then turn our attention to the latest Star Trek movie and wonder why they didn't use Dramatica to construct an emotionally fulfilling narrative.

Also. Epic music!

Links and Show Notes

Operation Solace: My 17-year old son's epic Soundcloud channel.
Dramatica: Secrets of the Quad: Melanie's 2-hour mind-blowing video on how Dramatica works the way it does.
Storyforming Series: Brand new ultra-cool video tutorial series on how to use Dramatica to uncover a story's unique storyform
Character Arc Snapshots: Short 2-minute videos that describe the deep thematic elements behind a character's "arc"
Story Concepts: Articles and blog posts organized by the story concept they cover
Discussion on discuss.dramatica: Writers looking to pattern match Dramatica's storyform will always fail to arrive at a satisfying conclusion.