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Thousands of writers use StoryWeaver to build their story’s world, characters, plot, theme,
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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

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• 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.

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Introduction to Structure

1. Introduction and Seminar Outline

2. Structure vs. Storytelling

3. Eight Aspects of Story Structure and Storytelling

4. The Difference Between Structure and Storytelling

5. “Scrooged” and Structure Failure

6. Origins of the Story Mind Concept

7. The Story Mind

8. Tales vs. Stories

9. The Four Story Perspectives

10. Non-structural Story Forms

11. Introduction to Heroes

12. Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird

13. Deconstructing Heroes and Villains

The concepts and techniques described in this program
are incorporated in Dramatica Story Structure Software

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This nearly two-hour free video program is excerpted from a two-day seminar presented by Dramatica Theory co-creator Melanie Anne Phillips.

Program One is an overview of the key elements of story structure and how they work together to create the dramatic foundation of stories.