Dramatica Story Expert Icon Toolbar
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Each time you open or create a document, the document window has the Icon Toolbar at the top of the window.
The icons in the icon toolbar at the top of Dramatica Story Expert's document window give you access to the most commonly used tools in the program. Just click your mouse on any icon to go to that feature of Dramatica.
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Overview Icon The Overview icon brings you to the Project Overview window. This window shows you general information about various key elements in your document. It is also the default window when you Open or create a New document. |
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Story Info Icon The Info icon brings you to the general information window. This window shows you information about the document, such as author's name, source material, setting, and more. |
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Gist Manager Icon The Gist Manager icon opens the Gist Manager window. The Gist Manager controls the management and storage of the gist databases, otherwise known as "Gist Collections." This is also a great place for creating your own gists and gist collections. |
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Players Icon The Players icon brings you to a window is where you create your story's characters, as well as describe their personal attributes, histories, likes and dislikes, etc. |
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Casting Icon The Casting icon brings you to the Casting window. Casting offers a simple way to assign pictures to your characters. |
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Characteristics Icon The Characteristics icon brings to you the Apply Characteristics window, also known as the Build Characters window. In this window you can begin to develop your characters and their relationships with each other by deciding what is driving them, and more. |
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StoryGuide Icon The StoryGuide leads you step-by-step through the creation of your story. It offers several different approaches to creating your story. The StoryGuide is an ideal place to start fleshing out your ideas. |
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Story Engine Icon The Story Engine icon takes you to the Story Engine, the structural heart of your story. The Story Engine allows you to tweak your story choices and explore "what if?" scenarios. Considered an advanced Dramatica tool, the Story Engine lets you see how the changing of one item ripples throughout your story and affects the other parts. |
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Theme Browser Icon The Theme Browser icon brings you to the Theme Browser, which displays a 3-Dimensional view of your story's dramatic elements, giving a bird's-eye look at how they interconnect. Recommended for Advanced users only. |
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Story Points Icon The Story Points window offers another view of your story, a table of your story's dramatic elements and the illustrations you have written to illustrate them. You may also write or edit your illustrations in the Story Points window. |
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Reports Icon The Reports Icon brings you to the Reports window where you view or print detailed reports on your story's structure, characters, theme, plot, genre, and Illustrations. These reports can also be exported for use in Movie Magic Screenwriter or a word processing program. |
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Progression Icon The Progression icon brings you to the plot progression view, which gives you a linear display of your story's 4 throughlines from beginning to end of the story. Each throughline consists of 4 Signposts--indicating where the story stands at certain points--and 3 Journeys--the acts between the signposts. |
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Brainstorming Icon Have fun as Brainstorming puts a fresh spin on your story. Based on your story choices so far, Spin-the-Model randomly fills in the rest to give you a storyform you might not have thought of. The Character Generator creates new characters with as much random-ness as you allow. |
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Help Icon Dramatica has an extensive Online Help system, complete with this Manual and the Dramatica Theory Book. |
