Project Menu
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The Project menu commands include:
The Overview command brings you to the project overview window, which shows you the broadest general view of your project. It shows you your project's key players, project title, author, logline, synopses, and more.
The Story Info command bring you to the story information window , which helps you keep track of separate versions and drafts of your story. You can enter basic information about your story here when you create a new file. You may also choose to add images for the Overall Story throughline, and the Relationship throughline there.
The StoryGuide command brings you to Dramatica Story Expert's query system, which contains several different topic paths with which to develop your story. This includes the three StoryGuide topic paths that are step-by-step tutorials for creating new stories. Other topic paths include Quick Story, All DQS Topics, Instant Dramatica and more.
The Story Engine command brings you to the Story Engine window. The Story Engine is a power user's tool for working with Dramatica Story Expert's storyforming process. It contains for different story point sets with which to storyform: the traditional story engine story points, a master set of story points, character-centric story points, and plot progression story points.
The Story Points command brings you to the Story Points window, which presents your Storyforming and Illustrating information in a table format.
The Theme Browser command brings you to the Theme Browser window, which displays a 3-Dimensional view of your story's dramatic elements, giving a bird's-eye look at how they interconnect.
Plot Progression gives you a linear view of your story's 4 throughlines, showing how the plot in each progresses over time.
The Reports command opens the Reports window, which lets you output all the story work you've done in Storyforming and Illustrating.
The “Spin-the-Model" Brainstorming tool is a random Storyform generator. By using it, you allow Dramatica to randomly pick one storyform for you out of the 32,768 possible. If you choose, it can retain all storyforming choices you may have made in the StoryGuide, or Story Engine windows. Additionally, you may choose to have random gists assigned to the storyform selections.
Running the Pick Random Storyform randomly assigns all the story points in your document. This command honors all previous choices you have made (if any), while randomly assigning the remaining story point choices.