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I'm at a bit of a loss to see the difference between "Consider" and "Reconsider". The definition of "Consider" talks about turning something over and over again in your head, which would imply that it's being reconsidered ad nauseum. What's the difference, and how are t...

Good answer. It's almost as if you've thought about this theory of yours.

I'm a little confused as to the distinction between these two throughlines. It seems like every scene I illustrate that involves the impact character also involves the main character debating with him, which naturally places them in the SS throughline. And since the SS throughline is supposed to be ...

I'm confused about "Playing a Role" as an OS consequence. It seems like a great many stories have an OS throughline of "Activity" and an OS concern of "Doing". This automatically forces the consequence of "Playing a Role", but it never seems right to me. If th...

Very interesting! I will look at that with a new perspective.

I hadn't really gone into the Advanced Reports in Dramatica, but I'm finding their plain English summaries very useful indeed.

There's some insight there for sure. Thank you. It seems to me like there's some mysterious mathematical magic going on in how Dramatica figures out what elements go where, and this magic is not easily understood. I confess that as I put my story together, the pieces do seem to fit. It's oddly disco...

Expanding on the Overall Story Problem of Test in "Star Wars" a bit, you might include the following: The Empire tests its growing powers by attacking Senator Organa's ship and abducting her after they discover she is transporting stolen data about the Empire's secret new planet-killing w...

I've been superficially familiar with Dramatica until I recently stumbled across StoryFanatic and loved it. Now I'm digging deeper into Dramatica and finding it fascinating. I had numerous "a ha!" moments reading through the character section of the book. But it lost me a bit when I got to...