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- Jan 09, 2011 8:51 am
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Help with Impulsive Responses
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9085
Re: Help with Impulsive Responses
Thanks for your help Chris. I was getting so bogged down in trying to make my ideas conform to the story form that I forgot that Dramatica is a tool not a strait jacket. The Domains aren't absolute values that dictate the story, they're "areas of context" within which to examine it. When I...
- Jan 07, 2011 2:07 pm
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Help with Impulsive Responses
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9085
Re: Help with Impulsive Responses
Thanks for replying so quickly Jeff and you’re right, the main character’s problem isn’t Tourette’s. I’ll explain a bit more about my story. I’m writing a science fiction novel in which the main character is experiencing an identity crisis. In his back story, an unknowing contact with the antagonist...
- Jan 06, 2011 2:11 pm
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Help with Impulsive Responses
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9085
Help with Impulsive Responses
In my story the Main Character has spent his entire life rejecting and repressing parts of himself that he finds distasteful, so his throughline is about facing and then accepting himself for who he really is. I'm happy with the story form that Dramatica has given me, however I'm having trouble wrap...
- Jul 18, 2010 3:00 pm
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: The question of novels
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5467
The question of novels
Hi Chris. Thanks for the answers you've supplied to my other questions. It's taken me a while to wrap my head around the material, but I'm getting there bit by bit. I'm a month or so away from actually writing my first story after illustrating the various elements of the story form and I've just rea...
- Jun 06, 2010 5:34 am
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Thematic Sequence Confusion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5929
Thematic Sequence Confusion
Hi Chris. I was wondering if you could clarify something for me. I've illustrated my story form in broad strokes and I'm about to start working on the thematic sequences. I have a general idea of they work, but something in particular is confusing me. My OS Issue is Skill with the Counterpoint of Ex...
- Feb 12, 2010 9:04 pm
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Help needed with Subjective Story Theme
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5479
Help needed with Subjective Story Theme
HI Chris, I have a bit of a problem that I could use your help with. In my story, I'm having trouble getting to grips with the Main vs Impact Character Issue and Counterpoint The two characters involved are a young arrogant spoiled brat who's something like a prince, and his man servant who has been...
- Oct 08, 2009 1:05 am
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Need help with Throughline Confusion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6090
Re: Need help with Throughline Confusion
Thanks a lot Chris. Your reply has cleared up a lot of confusion for me regarding the Impact Character. I had a lot of elements included in his Siutation and Concern that were giving me trouble, but now they've been focussed into the elements that are causing him problems. From that I now have a cle...
- Sep 19, 2009 2:52 pm
- Forum: Practical Dramatica
- Topic: Need help with Throughline Confusion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6090
Need help with Throughline Confusion
I'm experiencing a bit of confusion regarding the best way to present the conflict between my main and impact characters in my story. The main points are these. 1) The OS is about a war that is being waged between two groups of people. 2) The SS is about the relationship between a mentor-father and ...