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Mark Kamibaya posted an update 8 years, 1 month ago
@kate-flournoy I didn’t reply to your post on my Structure and Character Arcs topic, but I would like if you could explain Dramatica to me. People say it’s really awesome, but, to me, the only significant advantage that it has is that Dramatica emphasizes the impact character way more than any other form. Everything else that it has to say is either very minor or has been done by other structure forms.
Ha actually @Mark-Kamibaya I really don’t know all that much about Dramatica when it comes to technicalities— I wasn’t sure what I wrote until I saw a post comparing Hero’s Journey and Dramatica, and realized that Dramatica was what I wrote instinctively. I haven’t actually studied it all that much. You may be right that the only significant difference is the emphasis on the impact character, but you’d be surprised how much power just that one difference can add. Basically, Dramatica is dozens of little different stories all woven into one. If you separated the stories from each other, however, they would each reflect the completed theme, or some aspect of the theme, on their own. So Dramatica basically consists of repeating the theme over and over within the different story threads and using it all to weave a bigger story and stronger understanding of that theme by the end. The naturally would place more importance on the impact characters, as each character is an impact character in some way and each has their own story and thematic twist to follow. Have you read Les Miserables? It’s a perfect example.
Does that make any sense?