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Dramatica® Pro
The Ultimate Creative Writing Partner
Rating: Excellent "The most versatile and dynamic program of its kind, Dramatica is a sophisticated, intuitive tool that can benefit both the novice and professional." --Writer's Digest
"At the beginning of the project, Dramatica Pro is great....It puts you so far ahead. It saves you time because you're not writing stuff you'll eventually have to throw away because you hadn't thoroughly thought it through."
Got an idea for a story? Dramatica Pro is the place to start! Dramatica Pro will ensure that all your characters serve their dramatic purpose, your themes stay true to your characters, and plots stay on track. You'll cast and build your characters, plot out your story, layer in themes with universal meaning, and put it all together to create an unforgettable story.
Structure Your Plot:
Answer Dramatica's thought-provoking questions about your characters and plot. This narrows down the possible ways of telling your story to the one that best expresses your personal vision--and prompts Dramatica to supply some answers of its own. Amazingly, it can show you which parts of your story are strong, and which need punching up!
Illustrate Your Story:
Write specific examples of how each of your story decisions about character arc, theme, conflict, tension, story goal, plot points, etc., will play out in your story's scenes. At the click of a button, see how the great writers illustrated the same story points in their classic stories by looking at in-depth breakdowns of over 60 films, novels, plays, and short stories .
Create Scenes:
Now weave together all the parts of the story you've developed so far. Determine how elements of character, plot, and theme will be revealed to your audience over time, and place your written examples directly into specific Acts, Scenes, or Chapters. Your step outline or plot synopsis is complete, ready to be honed into a killer first draft!
Develop Your Characters:
Interesting. Deep. Real. Memorable. Dramatica helps you craft characters that leap off the page and into the hearts and minds of your audience. Visualize your characters by casting them from your choice of over 500 icons. Name them from a database of over 5,000 unique names.
Structure Templates:
Open one of the structure template files to use a pre-built dramatic structure for your novel, screenplay, or short story--complete with instructions on what to write about in each scene or chapter. You'll never be alone when you work alongside the "Ultimate Creative Writing Partner." Together you'll solve the plot and character problems that prevent many good stories from becoming great enough to sell. Dramatica's StoryGuide will handhold you from initial idea all the way through to completed narrative treatment, inspiring you and supporting you along the way. It's like having a successful author sitting by your side and mentoring you.
Words of Praise for Dramatica Pro, the award-winning writing software based on the Dramatica Theory of Story:
"I had my pitch meeting with a producer... Everything he wanted to know I'd been forced to game out with my ol' friend Dramatica... the program will make your job as a writer not only easier, but more fun. By the way, I got the deal." -- David Obst, Wired Magazine
"Dramatica is my indispensable tool both in bringing form to my new novels and in the repair and tune-up of stories that I am revising. It has added a new, grander dimension to my craft. These are power tools no storyteller should be without." --Tracy Hickman, New York Times Best-selling Author
Rating: 5 Stars "This program is an amazing tool for helping both professional and wanna-be writers create, deepen, and refine their stories." -- PC Magazine
"Dramatica instructs gently with the possibility of grand results. Used accordingly, the program can help a writer to create a flawless story blueprint. It actually has the ability to assist almost anyone to form a compelling tale that only that individual is capable of producing."--Writers' Journal
Rating: 5 Stars "This program is an amazing tool for helping both professional and wanna-be writers create, deepen, and refine their stories." -- PC Magazine
Rating: Excellent "The most versatile and dynamic program of its kind, Dramatica is a sophisticated, intuitive tool that can benefit both the novice and professional."-- Writer's Digest
"[Dramatica Pro] doesn't supply canned prose or purport to do any actual writing. Instead, it helps you define your characters and organize your plot." --Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal
"A program to help the Steven Spielbergs of tomorrow work their way through writer's block." --CNN Future Watch
"Dramatica Pro may teach you more about the intricacies of the writing craft than any other product on the market." -- Back Stage West
"Dramatica Pro is a totally revolutionary creative writing tool and partner that delivers what it promises... This new theory is a proven approach that systematically eliminates the pitfalls of writing to formula. Users of the system will find Dramatica Pro indispensable for developing, or enhancing, the story they really want to tell." -- Eden Maxwell, LAMG Digest
"Dramatica Pro represents a major leap for novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and fiction writers. Dramatica Pro's user interface unquestionably stands head and shoulders above its other top three competitors, StoryLine Pro, Collaborator, and Plots Unlimited. Simply put, you can create a tightly structured story within Dramatica Pro's unique environment..." --Randy Sydnor, KLA Radio
"By helping to clarify your intentions before you begin writing, Dramatica has the potential to shave weeks (possibly months!) off of the frequently frustrating, hit-or-miss rewriting process." --NYScreenwriter
"The best program for either a novice or a blocked writer. While you still, of course, offer the raw material, it truly does help you arrange it." --Fiction Writer
"Run any story through Dramatica Pro and it'll come out stronger, richer, and more dynamic. In short, just plain better...Recently, I've been using the Dramatica Pro approach to storytelling to teach my students and guide our screenwriting faculty." --Prof. Charlie Purpura, while Head of Screenwriting, New York University, Tisch School of the Art, Dept. of Dramatic Writing
"In my recent memoir Silent Fire (New York: Crown Books, 2002), I used Dramatica to bring to life the people as I remembered them, so that they could live not only in my memory, but in the story as well." --James A. Connor, Writer, Silent Fire
"The story for "Copy Shop" was in my head for 10 years. Dramatica is with me for 5 years - long enough to burn the 12 essential questions into my subconscious. The 12 minute film won 25 international awards and an Oscar-nomination." --Virgil Widrich, 2001 Oscar® Nominee, Best Short Film: "Copy Shop"
"Dramatica Pro is a true brainstorming partner! No other story software offers this level of involvement and efficiency in the story creation process; what a liberating experience. You guys have built a valuable tool that will continue to inspire for years to come." --Shayne Wilson, Associate Producer, Dead Like Me
"Dramatica Pro is a story development tool I am pleased to recommend to other writers. It can either develop a story with minimal feedback from the writer or significantly enhance an existing idea by fanning writer passion to an unexpected level. This has allowed my story development process to shift in several truly systemic ways." --David O'Neal, Novelist, Fool Me Twice, What Goes Around, The Pact With Bruno, Choosing to Kill
"Having writer's block or even paradoxically too many ideas can prevent you from getting that great concept or pitch off the ground. That's where Dramatica comes into play. It's not only the ultimate objective brainstorming partner but it guides you through the in-depth- process of character, plot and theme development without which there can be no good screenplay. There is a lot of painstaking 'homework' in the development process but Dramatica actually draws you into it almost effortlessly. It makes the next step-the screenwriting process-virtually devoid of the dreaded writer's block. In one case Dramatica has provided an angle and idea for the storyline that no one thought about. It made the story better; it was actually brilliant and it was free! Now that's a novel concept in this town !"--Jean - Philippe Girod, Producer, Windhorse Entertainment
"Dramatica Pro is a great way to start out and organize a story."--Robin Cowie, Producer, The Blair Witch Project
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Something For Every Writer
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Dramatica® Pro--The ultimate creative writing partner helps you develop unforgettable characters, rich themes, and bulletproof plots.
Outline 4D™--The awesome outlining program with a timeline view and event tracking.
Movie Magic® Screenwriter--An industry standard software program for writing screenplays, teleplays, novels, radio plays, stage plays, comic books, and multi-media scripts in proper format.
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