Main vs. Impact Characters
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 12:16 pm
I find the concept of Dramatica fascinating, but I have immediately run into what appears to a fundamental barrier that makes it very difficult to apply my story to this system. Hmmm…
Your ideals on solving this are fully welcomed.
Within the first 8 scenes of my story the Main Character expels a very important character into a nearby forest, and it here that the book essentially becomes what appears to be 2 completely different stories. Yet, the book follows both. One story is survivalist based, as the expelled friend drops out of society, out of all social orbits and struggles with survival basics and against nature. The other story is about someone who has over reached financially and in the process alienated her friends and family. The first person alienate is that friend, now living and struggling to survive in the nearby forest. These 2 different characters and storylines don’t merger until the final 5 scenes.
Please correct me on the Main vs. Impact Characters mandate, but Dramatic makes me choose only 1 Main Character and that fundamentally shifts the center of focus and gravity in the story, but my story is essentially 2 stories that share a common theme, universal messages, setting proximity, as well as other vitals that will be revealed at the very end of both story arcs.
The book gives an equal amount of focus on each story as reader sees both stories in real time, a few scenes in one story, then a few in the other story, etc… All woven on the same timeline.
Once I pick one of these 2 as a Main Character, doesn’t that lock in or warp the story focus with this type of story? How will this affect Dramatica’s system effectiveness and the means it uses to point out the wide range of concerns when constructing this story style? The implications seem profound. Yes?
Both of these 2 storylines are of equal importance.
Thank you
Bryan Fletcher
Your ideals on solving this are fully welcomed.
Within the first 8 scenes of my story the Main Character expels a very important character into a nearby forest, and it here that the book essentially becomes what appears to be 2 completely different stories. Yet, the book follows both. One story is survivalist based, as the expelled friend drops out of society, out of all social orbits and struggles with survival basics and against nature. The other story is about someone who has over reached financially and in the process alienated her friends and family. The first person alienate is that friend, now living and struggling to survive in the nearby forest. These 2 different characters and storylines don’t merger until the final 5 scenes.
Please correct me on the Main vs. Impact Characters mandate, but Dramatic makes me choose only 1 Main Character and that fundamentally shifts the center of focus and gravity in the story, but my story is essentially 2 stories that share a common theme, universal messages, setting proximity, as well as other vitals that will be revealed at the very end of both story arcs.
The book gives an equal amount of focus on each story as reader sees both stories in real time, a few scenes in one story, then a few in the other story, etc… All woven on the same timeline.
Once I pick one of these 2 as a Main Character, doesn’t that lock in or warp the story focus with this type of story? How will this affect Dramatica’s system effectiveness and the means it uses to point out the wide range of concerns when constructing this story style? The implications seem profound. Yes?
Both of these 2 storylines are of equal importance.
Thank you
Bryan Fletcher