Hi, I'm Melanie Anne Phillips, co-creator of Dramatica.
I'm pleased to present this collection of materials about the Dramatica Theory
of Story. I hope you find it both useful and through-provoking.
Dramatica Theory
Book Online
Free online edition of the 400+ page book, Dramatica: A New
theory of Story, in which Chris Huntley and I originally documented our work.
Dramatica
Dictionary
Official definitions of all terms in the Dramatica
theory and software.
Dramatica Writing Tips
Useful and informative articles on how to approach and
employ both the Dramatica Theory and Software.
Constructive
Criticisms
Practical illustrations of how applying the Dramatica
theory could have made some well-known successful story's even better!
Dramatica
Q & A
Answers to questions from users of the Dramatica Theory
and Software.
Instant
Dramatica
Even more directly practical essays on using Dramatica
for real-world writing situations and problems provided by noted screenwriter
Armando Saldaņa Mora.
Historic
Documents
Dramatica
- The Lost Theory Book
Early attempts to document the theory, including many
unfinished conjectures and false starts.
Dramatica
Development Archives
Early documents created during the development of the
foundations of Dramatica. Often later discarded, they show the roots of
the thinking that ultimately evolved into the theory as it stands today.
Speculations
Deep Theory
Transcript of a class on the outer fringes of Dramatica
Theory I taught as part of a now-defunct Dramatica Certification course.
Dramatica
Math
A mathematician takes a stab at describing the Dramatica
model in terms of dimensional distortions.
Mental
Relativity
An exploration of the theory of psychology modeling
which grew out of the development of Dramatica.
Dramatica
I Ching
Several of our users have noticed a similarity between
the character grid in Dramatica and the elements of the traditional I Ching.
Though unintentional, perhaps all models that look deeply into the mind will
resemble each other.
