The Dramatica Chart
Dramatica Unplugged By Melanie Anne Phillips Creator StoryWeaver , Co-creator Dramatica The Story Mind 1.4 The Dramatica Chart Download Chart in PDF At the heart of the story engine is a matrix of story points: The Dramatica Chart of Story Elements (which is not unlike the Periodic Table of Elements in chemistry). You can use it to create the chemistry of your characters, plot, theme, and genre. The Dramatica chart contains all the psychological processes that must exist in a Story Mind. In fact, every human mind shares all of these processes. What makes one mind different from another is not the kinds of mental activities in each, but rather how the activities are interconnected. Just as in chemistry, various elements might be combined to create an infinite number of compounds, so too the dramatic elements of the Dramatica Chart can be combined to create virtually all valid psychological structures for stories. At its most simple level, the chart can be seen as having four principal...